Me and Eustace. Eustace Conway was called "The last real American man" by GQ magazine. He is an anthropologist who now lives completely off the land. He plows the fields with his bulls and travels by canoe and horseback, simply because he loves to. He holds the record for traveling from the Atlantic to the Pacific by horseback, something like 103 days. One day when he was 17, he moved outside into a tipi and stayed there for the next 17 years. Check out the link to his page I placed on the right side. He has a good book titled after the GQ quote. A neat man with a incredibly interesting history. 

On the last day of Merlefest as we were leaving, a man and his wife were passing me on their way to catch a bus. The man said to me, "You win." "What," I replied. He said, "You win. You have the perfect family; son in a ball cap, beautiful wife and beautiful daughter. Your family is the best looking family I have ever seen." Well, now that I look at them, they are kind of cute.

We had a fun 4 days in Wilkesboro, North Carolina attending Merlefest from April 28-May1. Here is a picture of Doc Watson. We enjoyed the best of Bluegrass, Celtic, Irish, Blues, and Country music. Some of our favorites were Bela Fleck, Jerry Douglas, The Avett Brothers, The Kruger Brothers, Doc Watson, Tony Rice, John Cowen, Mel Jones, and of course the kids loved Shanna Banana. We camped in a tent for 3 nights. The kiddos didn't want to come home.