In 2005 I bought a Van with two guys I had only met twice in my life. Jason, Tak, and myself drove this van across Canada following Pearl Jam. Along the way we picked up fans who were doing multiple shows and gave them rides from city to city. Eventually we became known as the Touring Van within the Pearl Jam community. After the Canadian tour Jason didn’t get his fill of Pearl Jam, and went on to drive the Van across the USA. Finally he continued to follow the band through Europe and Australia, embarking on one epic journey.

Jason recently finished writing a book about his adventures following Pearl Jam. The book title This All Encompassing Trip will be release on October 31, 2010, however you can pre-order it now on his website at: http://www.thisallencompassingtrip.com. I haven’t read the book yet, but I am pretty sure it will be fantastic. So go out and pre-order yourself a book and help out a first time author.

So I had been meaning to write up a Sasquatch review, but have been way too busy. So I am just going to send you to Jason’s writeup instead. I think he covered things well:

http://www.thisallencompassingtrip.com/2009/05/26/sasquatch-festival-at-the-gorge/

Things to note. The Decemberists new album in full was amazing. I will possibly write a blog post about that in the future (but yeah you know how it goes). Explosions in the Sky were amazing, “We’re not trying to bum you out, we’re going to try and bliss you out”.

“Party On Dudes!”