Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Day One - Sacramento

After leaving Sacramento we hit traffic. And I mean TRAFFIC.
We were already late. This did not to happen to us!!! The traffic was horrible! Labor day people…LABOR DAY. Come on now. You know you need to get back to work on Tuesday…what are you doing still up in the mountains at 1:00 and waiting in traffic. Y’all should have come home yesterday! So anyways we roll into Sacramento like an hour and a half late. Possibly later than that…I’ll try to find out and fix this post later. But the point is we were late, really late. Really, really late.






We were getting calls on the road from Donald, Robert and Doug, waiting at the rally, and trying to keep the people from leaving. The radio station 101.7 The Wolf was there and from what I hear they did a lot to help keep people entertained and busy while we were on the way in. I believe what happened was The Wolf had printed and a bunch of cards for the troops and I think they were asking people to fill those out while waiting for us to arrive.
The way the traffic worked out, our caravan got split up a bit and as it turned out Diane Nagey arrived at the next Rally before us. I was on the phone with Don telling him that Diane was ahead of us and I heard him say “Oh this might be them pulling up right here and I could already here people cheering in the background.


We pulled in not too far after and I was very pleased to see that although the media had left us and the Wolf was forced to pack up all their equipment (they were running on a large capacity battery and it just ran out of juice) that there were still at least 100 to 150 people still hanging around. Ryan parked one of the trucks up ahead and Joe and I parked our truck a bit further back just because we wanted to give the RV room to get a good parking spot. Joe stayed behind to find a better place for the truck and I jumped out and ran up to see what I could unpack.



As I was running by I saw the local squadron of Young Marines doing some maneuver for the crowd. It was pretty crazy because as I went by they were doing their marine shouts and it actually scared me because they seemed to have these crazy, bellowing voices. But they looked like little kids. So we basically unpack
everything in a frantic rush; nobody speaks to one another, we just grab whatever we know is needed out of the truck and run towards the spot.




I grabbed a table at first, and then I started bringing out shirts and books. I think that since Ryan is the obvious audio set up guy, I am the de-facto everything-else-guy. That usually means t-shirts, magnets and things of that nature, as well as the sheet and markers and stuff. So I get everything set up and immediately we were selling shirts. Anne helped me with the shirt sales, THANKS ANNE!!!!









They also started the show immediately and everyone kind of sat down and listened. It was basically the same as Sacramento except that we didn’t have Duncan Hunter and we had a different MC who was Mark Williams.

Mark introduced Melanie and Buzz, Melanie gave her speech. Buzz talked about the war, Debbie and Deborah told the stories of their sons’ service to the country and especially about the need for national unity and the committment to see past partisanship. We had to try and wrap everything up really quickly because after starting the Rally in Sacramento late we were going to be late for San Francisco. Not to mention today one of the bridges is out. So there’s more traffic on the remaining ones. Awesome.





Of course everyone signed the VICTORY BLANKET (well...it's really just a sheet) too!


At the very end of the rally, THE WOLF gave us some cards to take to the troops! THANKS!

We packed everything up, also in a frenzied state of confusion. Everyone just snapped into action, if they saw something on the ground that they recognized or that had the words “Move America Forward” on it, we threw it in the back of the trucks. Obviously the trucks are mess now. So unpacking in San Francisco I am assuming is going to be tricky.



We are on our way now.

I took my sweet time to start writing this blog. We got into a little confusion with the GPS systems on the way. Apparently we weren’t sure whether to believe it or not. And finally I was able to get it to detour and pick a different route and we were confident in where we were going. We’re right now driving through something called North Beach or what Ryan tells me was once known as the ‘Italian district’

Oh hey…I just saw my first GLBTQ Rainbow flag flying over some little cafĂ©. Super.


Hopefully we are getting close to our rally point, which I believe is near Pelosi’s office. And we’re only 9 minutes late. That’s awesome because Ryan and I were just talking about how late we were and about how much extra time we budgeted for each commute, and whether it’s sufficient or not.


Alright, looks like its show time for the San Francisco show pretty soon here, we’ll see you guys later.

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