Many, many years ago Utah Philips gave us some excellent advice: When you're first starting out, take the worst gigs you can get - you'll learn a lot. We did and he was right. So, when we started on the road we decided to make some rules.

One was that we only played in schools, house concerts, festivals, etc., never in bars or restaurants.

Another is that we always travel in a small motorhome and never by car or plane. This severely limits our range of travel but it means we always have our "house" with us. No surprises there.

Another is that we always bring our own sound system and rarely use theirs unless there's a tech available to run it.

After twenty two years we're sliding into retirement but being on the road hasn't been too bad. In spite of all this, we have enough "experiences" to write a book and we just might do it one of these days. No self-mutilation but we were trapped by a mad dog in a room with about one hundred kindergarten kids for nearly two hours!

Bev and Jerry