• How Bisbee makes you go Arrgh!

    How Bisbee makes you go Arrgh!

    The Bisbee Pirate Weekend in the port city of Bisbee Arizona goes all weekend in some form or another, but the vending portion is only on Saturday. We went up Friday night with reservations, we hoped, at the Silver King Hotel, which claims to have the country’s smallest bar. Indeed, Room 4 in the hotel…

  • Camping downtown in Cedar City

    Camping downtown in Cedar City

    Held in downtown Cedar City, Utah, the Utah Midsummer Renaissance Faire is another small town fair that doesn’t go on Sunday [see Show Low – previous post].  They start on Wednesday, however, and we had to drive almost direct from Show Low to make load-in. Main Street Park in old downtown is smaller than the…

  • Small scale mayhem at the top of the rim

    Small scale mayhem at the top of the rim

    The Medieval Mayhem Renaissance Fair in Show Low Arizona is a small fair on a big field.

  • UnObtanium July 2024 wandering hub

    We did three shows in four weeks and what they had in common was small towns,  and grass lush enough that we did not bother laying out the rugs. And mosquitoes.

  • Prepping for our micro-tour

    Prepping for our micro-tour

    For the first time in our relatively young existence, we have back-to-back weekend appearances that will require travel between them. Technically, this is our 3rd back-2-back, but the first were both a few hours from Las Vegas, where Cheryl lived at the the time, and the second were separated by our honeymoon, so that doesn’t…