Dan and Sam’s Non Stop Red Rock Adventure

3/11 Thursday

4pm Sam and Dan meet up in Grand Forks to unpack and repack the PLC

6pm Dan, Andy, Sam and Chase headed to downtown Grand Forks to accept the Event Coordinator of the Year award presented by the Grand Forks Center for visitors bureau 

10pm head to South Dakota to do some high steel rigging for a concert

3/12 Friday

2am Arrive in South Dakota

6am Wake up to go set up for concert

1pm finish set up and go do acrobatics in pool

7pm Go work the concert and then take it down 

11:45pm Finish South Dakota show and head straight to ND (Sam has only had a 50 min nap)

3/13 Saturday

4:30am Arrive in ND to set up Bon Jovi show, Sam drove the whole way Dan slept 2 hours

1pm Finish set up for Bon Jovi then sneak into a room for a 3 hr nap

7pm Work Bon Jovi show and then take it down

3/14 Sunday

2am Finish Bon Jovi show, Sam takes of in the PLC car heading to Denver, Dan heads back to GF to sleep

11am Dan drives back to Minneapolis to babysit his niece

3/15 Monday

8am Dan has a job interview at a community college in Minneapolis ( Dan Gets Job)

11:30am Dan gets on a Plane to Denver

1pm Sam picks Dan up at the airport and we drive to Aspen

6:45pm Arrive in Aspen

7-9pm Teach slackline clinic At the Red Brick in Aspen

9:20pm Head to Vegas baby…

3/16 Tuesday

12:30am Find a pull over and go to sleep

10am Keep driving to Vegas. We got heaps of work done while driving…Wrote contract, placed orders, organized email, ect

4pm Time to be active, go for a 1hr run, 10 min warm up dan stopes to do 10 pushups then sprints to catch Sam sam stops to do 10 pushups then sprints to catch Dan repete 10 times. and 10 min warm down with 10 pull ups.

 Go to bank, fix chip in window in PLC new Face ( PLC is all better now)

8pm Arrive in Vegas and head out to the hot springs Hike 3 miles to amazing hot springs, end up in the CO river looking out at the Hoover Dam bridge, Naked.  Do Handstands (naked) on the edge of 105 degree natural pools with hot waterfalls flowing

3/17 Wednesday

1am Time to hit the strip!!!!!! Sam losses always, Dan wins on 15 black, wins 20 dollars off of one pull on Monopoly slots, wins 10 dollars on Playboy slots and wins 20 on black jack.  

9am we get our 100 free slots at Hooters and loss it all in 3 minutes, replace sparkplugs

10am finally go to sleep in PLC in the parking lot outside of the MGM

2pm wake up from the heat then grocery store and coffee shops

11pm watch movie in PLC Sam Discovers that a pillow on the steering wheel turns the drivers side of the PLC in to his livingroom

3/18 Thursday

2am woke up by security guard tells us he will let us stay until 6am

6am we need to move parking lots good thing we found some shade

10am We make breakfast in the parking lot and go to coffee shop

                Meet Jessica and are offered a place to shower

4pm Head to Mt Charles to do some climbing and see a waterfall

                There is 3 feet of snow, so we head up in flip flops, shorts and shirtless, set up a line over the snow, and get chased out by a storm

8pm Get to Jessica’s for a shower and some R&R

3/19 Friday

8am Wake up and head to coffee shop to get work done before our clinics at the Red Rocks rendezvous

1pm head to Red Rock Rendezvous to check out slackline set up possibilities…

3pm find out the gibbon set up will not work for our lines..we needed more slack in our system L

4pm head to Home Depot to make A frames to hold up the lines…I swear this feels familiar see last years blog

7pm Get introduced at the festival announce we will be available to teach 7am yoga thankfully no one showed up.

10pm Test new set up and thank God it worked

11:30pm Decide we need to run into town to get something…we are trying to look a bit more organized so we were going to paint the A frames so we bought some green spry paint… but alas we did not have time to paint them

3/20 Saturday

1:00am fall asleep

5:30am Wake up and head to the festival to set up our lines

7am teach yoga class

8am-4pm teach three 2 hour slackline clinics (Dan forgets sunscreen, bad idea)

4-11pm hang out at RRRendezvous

11:30pm fall asleep

3/21 Sunday

6am walk up

7am set up our lines

8am-4pm teach three more 2 hour slackline clinics (the sun is still hot!!!)

6pm Athlete meal and say goodbye to Red Rocks

8pm go to hotel and shower

10pm Heading back to Aspen

3/22 Monday

6am pull off the road to sleep

11am get back on the road to Aspen

4:45pm Arrive in aspen

5-9pm teach slackro workshop Check out pics here 

10pm End to Denver airport

3/23 Tuesday

6am Dan flys back to MN Sam finally gets to sleep

Dan gets to MN and has to teach from noon until 9pm

Bonus Beth Roden uses our line as a chair :)