Bo Bice at the Infinity Music Hall in Norfolk, CT

My day started by waking up with a head cold. I briefly considered canceling my plans but decided that I should just suck it up and carry on. That was my first mistake.

I left my house late and didn’t even realize it. I was scheduled to meet one of my AT Monitors in West Cornwall, CT at noon. Now I know where West Cornwall is, (it is famous for its covered bridge) and I know it takes me two hours to get there. But for some reason I forgot that and only gave myself an hour and a half. Then to make matters worse I took the route I usually take for the northern part of the AT instead of the southern part which added another 6 miles and a much slower speed to my already late road trip. Luckily, the fellow I was meeting was very nice about me arriving an hour late.

We met at his place to review the maps of the missing monuments. He has a beautiful house on the side of the mountain overlooking the Housatonic River with a backdrop of the rolling mountains of Northwest CT. You could hear the water of the river as it was rushing by. It is a wonderful soothing sound. I miss living in a house with water nearby.

Our mission was to find three missing monuments around Breadloaf Mountain. Luckily they were all rather close to the road because I was still beat from my 5-mile ice hike the day before with Giz and Rubaduc. We did manage to find the witness trees for all three monuments but none of the monuments. The first one was likely washed away. The second had some very large rocks covering it. The third may be found in the spring. The winter scenery was fantastic but of course I forgot that I had a camera with me.

On the way back we went to feed his wife’s horse some carrots. The horse seemed to enjoy the carrots while the other horses were looking on, in envy no doubt. I finally remembered that I had my small camera on me and managed to get this picture. We stopped at Baird's General Store next where I learned that the owners name is KC and that they have the best hamburg you can get.

Anyway, from this adventure I headed off to Winsted to have supper with my son. We went to Sophias, a place that used to be one of my favorite places to eat. I don’t know if we just hit a bad night but it didn’t seem as good as usual. Although the cheesecake was still as awesome as I remember,

I had some time to kill so I hung at my son’s house watching Repo! The Genetic Opera. While this film is not for everyone I enjoyed it. I didn’t get to see the end so I will have to finish it next time.

My next adventure was off to see Bo Bice at the Infinity Music Hall & Bistro in Norfolk, CT. I found a spot along the road and poorly parallel parked my sons car. Funny, I can back my Jeep Cherokee into just about any place I need to but I can’t parallel park my sons little Toyota car. With the keys in my hand I locked the door. Normally this wouldn’t be a problem except as I looked down I realized that I had the wrong ring of keys in my hand. There is only one door key and it was not one of the keys in my hand. Great!

I didn’t want to miss the show so I went inside and asked for a payphone. The young men at the counter gave me a quizzical look and said that they had heard of such a device before but they didn’t have one. Now Norfolk, CT is something like a village in size. Quaint, charming and dead after dark. Thankfully, the staff at the Infinity Music Hall were extremely helpful. They were willing to do whatever it took to get my car unlocked. As it turned out it I ended up logging into Facebook (I don’t know my sons phone number as it has always been programmed into my phone which was locked in the car) to get a hold of my son who of course gave me a hard time. He did come out and wait for the AAA guy to come pop the lock on the door and I thank him for that.



Bo Bice was AWESOME! I love his voice and his southern rock style. And seeing as I only bought a single ticket (no one else here knew who Bo Bice was) I was in the third row. Very nice. He had another fellow with him who was wicked good on the acoustic guitar. Bo Bice was engaging and funny and sounded amazing. He played a lot of new material which was great and I am looking forward to his next album.



After the show he was signing autographs downstairs and I think 200 of the 270 people there, were waiting to meet him. It took forever to get out the front doors as there was a major traffic jam at the signing table. As much as I would have liked an autograph I just couldn’t hang out with that many people to wait.

It was a long day and I still had an hour and a half drive home. Hopefully Bo will grace the Infinity again in the future. If he does, I will be there!