A true blast when they came to the campgrounds around 10 PM and walked us back to the show area. We got to watch the making of the video and I think I'm actually visible in one scene. Watching the boys pose for the cameras was hilarious!

The shows were fun too. Nice venue

It had been a good saturday Dead show. I didn't realize it at the time, but I would be with the beautiful and super fun girl Beth that I had just met that day for the following three years! I was chillin', it was about 1am, I was sitting in front of my tent taking another rip and hearing a rise of applause coming closer. As the clapping came really close, a HUGE soap bubble flew overhead towards the stage and of course I applauded too. Cool.

Minutes later, as if by omen, there were tuning noises starting to come from the stage. Nobody knew what to think. It's frikin' 1am right? People were waking up and running towards the stage chomping mushrooms as they ran. We all did.

Laguna Seca is a beautiful grassy flat camping by a pond in the middle of the racetrack. The stage faced up a dry slope about 200m from my tent. I was in the show five minutes later and began tripping (again) 40 minutes after that.

We were in a slight fog, it was a bit cold, there were about 5,000 of us, and the boys did Touch of Grey a hundred times it seemed, repeating parts, individual parts, licks, giant skeleton marionettes were on the stage dancing too, and Jerry looked tired. It was A LOT of fun.

I got back to my tent about 4:30am with this great tale to tell.