The Veggie bus bites the big apple at Farm Aid

The crisp and cool morning weather is starting to kick in which smells and feels wonderful when stepping off the stuffy bus. The east coast leg of our tour was full of adventure. Last weekend espically. Friday night we stopped by a party on a NY pier hosted by the city. Our friend Jill from Sunfood Nutrition told us about it, introduced us to a nice dj and we set up on the street above the pier with our own wheels of steel pounding out disco and house music on the sidewalk. When the event let out around 11pm folks heard our tunes, came up, toured the bus and danced for another hour with us to the wax I served up.
Bright and early the next morning we traveled across the city and over a bridge to Randall's Island in NY. There we pulled the bus in for Farm Aid. This festival supporting family farms travels and is in a different place every year. From what we hear it was the best ever. All the food and merchendise for sale were supporting thier cause, as opposed to standard venue hot dogs, chips and pop. It was a 12 hour outdoor festival/concert with a fantastic music line up including WIllie Nelson, Dave Matthews, a chacidic jewish rapper, and many more. Pet Promise sponsored the bus to be there so we had piles of free samples, coupons and a chance for folks to have free pet food mailed to thier house for free! Around 7 or 8 we shut the tables down and hit the show. Our Farm Aid sponsor passes got us right up front and that was awesome. If only we weren't all running on 2 hours of sleep (huge angry mosquitos kept us awake the night before sucking our blood and leaving us rediculously bitten up. We would have made it farther otherwise but by midnight we were back on the bus with a face full of pillow (ZZZzzzZZZzzz).
It's neat to load in to events early, see it all clean and empty and over the course of 2 days watch it transform into a playground of dancing, then back into some random empty field again.
Sunday we had a group meeting with our bosses to iron out some personal matters and reconnect before hitting the lonely road again.
By 2pm we were on the road for a 9 hour drive to Charlottesville, Va.