RUSH Drummer's 'Christmas Card From Death Valley'
December 16, 2008RUSH drummer Neil Peart has posted a lengthy "News, Weather And Sports" update on his web site. An excerpt from his posting follows below.
"In the dark early hours of December 4, 2008, I rode down the Pacific Coast Highway through a black void of ocean and sky. A few pairs of headlights glared toward me, and the ferris wheel at Santa Monica Pier was outlined in shifting circles and lines of colored light. The air was chilly, but I was warmly dressed, and excited to be heading for the desert.
"Riding east on I-10, keeping a semi-legal pace in the outside lane, I was hoping to slip through the entire width of Los Angeles before the morning gridlock. The sky began to brighten around the downtown towers, and lines of traffic were building to the east, but luck favored my journey. I kept moving steadily, out past San Bernardino and the San Gorgonio Pass to Palm Springs. Then at last I reached open highway, climbing the long grade up to Chiriaco Summit, and turning off into Joshua Tree National Park by about 8:00.
"There the real journey began — the part that made that long freeway drone worthwhile. I stopped at the Cottonwood Spring ranger station and paid my fee (and collected the passport stamp in my journal),then cruised along the park's narrow, winding roads, with hardly any other vehicles."
Read Neil's entire message at this location.
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