Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 11:09:58 -0700 (PDT)
Hey Guys,
I know it's been a while since you've been in Chico,
and you probably don't remember who I am, but I really
wanted to share my adventure to your concert with you
and I've been too busy with school and stuff and
haven't the time to write to you.
First of all, who I am, in case you forgot. You first
met me in Stockton and I had you autograph that really
cool drawing of the "N" and the feather. When I met
you in Chico, I gave you your own copy of that drawing
for you to keep and do as you please with. I was
wondering what you did do with it? My daughter also
gave you guys a drawing. She was the little girl with
the wings.
Anyway it was quite an adventure getting to your
concert. I guess it started with getting ready for
it. The plan was for me to pick up my daughter from
school and my husband from work, then go directly to
Chico from there. I needed to make and pack our
lunches, pack our clothes (in case it got cold), cd's,
camera, etc. I also still needed to draw your copy of
the N and feather, and look up the directions to the
fair, and only had about an hour or so to do it all
in.
I wound up leaving the house (Rancho Cordova) at 6pm
when I was supposed to be at my husbands work (Folsom)
at 6pm, so I was running extremely late. I went and
got my daughter and if I remember correctly, I
couldn't find her class right away because they were
out on the playground. So I finally found her and got
her in the car then took off for Folsom. I was
zooming down the freeway in the carpool lane at like
80 mph yelling about how slow everyone was going, and
then I saw the reason why everyone was going that
slow. There was a highway patrol officer on the right
side of the road. I quickly tapped my breaks a little
to slow down before actually reaching him. I think I
got slowed down to about 73 when I passed him. Then I
started merging back into traffic hoping that he
wouldn't see me. But unfortunately, I saw him coming
up the carpool lane on my left then he got behind me
and hit his lights. I cursed at myself and started
merging to the right to get off onto the shoulder.
It's one of those situations where, "If it can go
wrong, it will go wrong." Always when I'm in a hurry
to be somewhere.
Luckily, the only thing that he pulled me over for was
because he thought that I was traveling in the carpool
lane by myself because he didn't see my daughter in
the car. So I got off pretty lucky. But he still
wanted to see my drivers license, which I didn't have
on me, as well as proof of insurance and registration.
I just emptied the contents of the glove compartment
onto the passenger seat and told him that the
registration and insurance was in there somewhere. He
found the information he needed and then asked me my
birthdate so that he can look up my license. Like 10
minutes later, I was finally on my way again, but
before I left, I looked up to see the sign that said,
"Folsom Blvd., 1 mile." One more mile I could have
probably avoided that whole scene. Anyway, I think I
wound up in Folsom at about 6:20pm or so.
To make matters worse, I realized that I had forgotten
to get the directions, and we had to go back to the
house. And, of course, the printer needs to act up as
I'm trying to print. I finally got everything working
and wound up leaving the house at a little over an
hour later then I had originally planned. And of
course, even though we had the directions, we still
got lost and were spinning U-turns a few times. I
think the main hang up was the fact that instead of
going straight down the 99, mapquest had us going some
funky route down like the 70 through Marysville or
something. Then we had a hard time getting back on
the 99. We thought we were on the 99 but we didn't
see the exit that was supposed to be in like 0.
something miles. After going about 5 miles, we
decided that we messed up somewhere and flipped a
U-turn and went back the other way, then retraced our
steps and figured out we actually did go the right
way. So we pull over to look at the directions again,
and it turns out that my husband read it wrong. It
was 8. something miles, not 0. something miles. So I
through up my hands in frustration and went flying
down the 99 again, this time being careful not to
speed too much for fear of running into highway patrol
again. We finally arrived at the fair at about 9:14pm
and quickly asked where the main stage was and went
running to it.
So we missed about the first 20 minutes of the show I
think. But you guys played 20 minutes over, so we
still got to see a full hour's worth, including 'Just
Once More' which I really, really wanted to see. I
just really enjoyed watching you put all your energy
into that song, Gunnar. It looks like you really
enjoy peforming it. I hear that you miss being out
front with your brother and there are talks of you
possibly bringing Bobby Rock back on drums. I
sincerely hope this works out, cause your fans miss
you out front as well.
Anyway, since the show, I have joined the Nelson
Street Team and have started my service as a member by
creating a fan site for you guys. The site is
https://tslasher4u.tripod.com/nelson/nelsonpage.html .
I have been talking to Tami about the site, and she
seems to be really impressed with it and wants it on
your site under the links. One thing I thought about
adding to it was your family tree, starting with your
grandparents, on both sides of the family and going
down through you and include your uncles, siblings,
nieces, and nephews, etc. It would include
information such as origin, birthdate, occupation, and
maybe a little bit of info about some major
accomplishments or something of other importants that
they may have done. I haven't talked to Tami about
this yet, because so far it is just an idea. I guess
I kinda wanted your opinion on it first. I also have
some ideas of contacting some radio stations to try to
hear more of you on the radio again. So far, these
are just ideas that I'm starting to do some research
on, but I hope to have them in the making real soon.
Hope to hear from you soon!
Kimberly
From: "Kimberly Dimig"
Subject: Met ya at the Silver Dollar Fair in Chico
To: nelsons@thenelsonbrothers.com