left my house
yesterday morning at 5:15am
flew out at 7:15am
headed to woodstock
for my brother’s upcoming wedding
very excited and happy for them
and then
in the blink of an eye
and
without a flash of lightning
all forms of travel changed
and
got a little more complicated
i’m just saying
that i now
may
need a passport
but
i will find my way
to the big show
on time
no worries
who would expect
anything less
from woodstock
after all?
—
1969
Arlo Guthrie: It’s incredible.
I heard the New York Thruway’s closed.
News Reporter: Closed?
This morning we heard that they were
backed down Route 17 with an eight hour delay.
Arlo Guthrie: Right. Well, the New York Thruway’s closed.
Isn’t that far out?
“want to really get somewhere in life? just don’t follow the crowd.”
-jeremy limn
—
image credits: vintage woodstock 1969 google images
I didn't have my glasses on.... 
Had a girlfriend years ago that was there. Our discussions got quite testy when I tried to tell her that loud music, running around naked, sex and getting high was not going to end the Vietnam War.
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i wish i had been just a bit older when it happened…
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Flashback to listening to the album in my attic bedroom! 🙂
Hope the travel complications work out without too much . . .well, complication.
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oh, they always do )
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Travel without complications would be abnormal- perhaps boring- for you, wouldn’t it Beth? Best wishes to the happy couple as well:)
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so true, and thank you – even the original woodstock plan had a few complications )
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old enuff to remember i am here 🙂 …there lol.. fun fun! yes indeed 🙂
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ha! )
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Oh, my. Stay away from the brown acid, Beth. I heard that on the record. I hope you are no worse for wear, my dear. Give me a B … (Changing the Fish cheer to the Beth cheer.)
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Ha! No, doing well) now for my return to home….)
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Very cool Beth
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Thanks, Paul
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Yes indeed!
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😻
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“By the time we got to Woodstock
we were half a million strong
and everywhere there was song
and celebration”
CSNY
There was a time……..:) enjoy the wedding.
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Perfect )
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Good luck on the trip and enjoy the wedding!
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Thanks!
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Safe travels!
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Thanks – now to get back😺
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hope you made it to the wedding on time Beth and thanks for a walk down memory lane. Best to the happy couple.
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Made it here wedding tomorrow
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Family. Always complicated. Sounds exciting though so have fun.
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Will do
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Congratulations to the bride and groom! ❤
I was going to be 14, so maybe you were 12 but boy, oh boy! My babysitter came back changed! It would have been crazy but the wildest "ride"ever!
The photos, story of your traveling to the wedding just went perfectly together!
I don't think my son (unless using time travel, would have been impossible anyway. . .) would have made it out: he would have thought he had died and gone to Heaven. 🙂
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Thanks!
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Family wedding and Woodstock. What could be better?
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Exactly)
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Sounds chronocentric but I wish I grew up during that time. People seemed kinder. Or is that what people always say about the past?
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It is food for thought, isn’t it?
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As an aside Beth, I did guest post over at Mark Bialczak’s https://markbialczak.com/2016/08/21/harry/ If you have time to drop by, I would be honored. Thank You
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I’ll check it out)
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I read today’s post first, and it looks like it was an awesome celebration… and that you made it there safely. 🙂 Congrats to the happy couple! ❤
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I sure did and thank you,Rachel )
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Really enjoyed your Woodstock poem, very nice. like yo, I wasnt quite old enugh. i wanted to be a hippy, but my parents wouldn’t let me.
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would have loved to have been there! I have the movie and just love the opening scenes where they are building the stage to Crosby Stills and Nash’s ‘long time gone’ Just have to invent a time machine..
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yes, i am quite sure that if i had been older at the time, i would have been there )
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A wonderful reminder of a brilliant time. Hope you had a wonderful time at the wedding.
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yes, and thank you, it was wonderful, barbara –
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