Trip Report Loco_Driving through the night - Live!

It’s finally time for another TR from yours truly! I will be reporting live from WDW for the week!

Those of you who know me already know the cast for this one. It’s just the two of us. Myself and my much better half, the lovely Mrs. Loco. Here we are at Walt’s tiny castle last fall!
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We will be leaving this evening and driving overnight. Much like @brifraz , I ain’t scared of a little all night driving!
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I have the day off today, but the wife wasn’t so lucky. So I’ve been spending the day loading up the trusty RAV4(shoutout to @amjt660 )!
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It’s a good thing I didn’t prepare at all for our trip until today, now I have something to do!
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Anyways I gotta go finish packing things up, stay tuned for more updates! I can’t wait to find out what I forgot to pack!
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brifraz

brifraz

Marching along...
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MickeyCB said:
Closest I ever came to a tuba was when I got suckered into being the "band doctor" for my son's marching band and a female tuba player slipped in the grass and fell backwards onto her tuba and was stuck like a turtle on her back. We had to go rescue her (and check for broken bones)!
Was quite the sight.
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Loco_driver said:
Alright embarrassing story time. I played sousaphone in a small college marching band in Louisiana. One week we were invited to go do halftime and pre-game for a New Orleans Saints game. Our last formation for the pre-game was the fleur de lis. Somehow I ended up being the top of the fleur de lis, which required me to very quickly march backwards from the previous formation. Long story short, I ended up running over a piccolo player(who had been warned to look out for me already) during rehearsals one day and wound up on my back. It was quite the ordeal getting back up! Thankfully it didn’t happen during the actual performance in front of 75,000 fans! 🤣
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As I continue to derail the most excellent trip report of @Loco_driver with more tuba/sousaphone related talk... I marched sousa all through high school, but switched to baritone in college due to back issues and $$ (majoring in tuba would've meant buying one and a $2000 euphonium was much easier to pull off than a $5000 tuba). Freshman year of college at JMU we were doing Phantom of the Opera and had a cool move where a line moved through a triangle with each moving opposite directions. I was in the triangle at the point where the line passed through and the timing of the move meant that I got hit by a trombone slide every time if we did it right. Yes, if we did it right. The director even said it to us all - "if brifraz gets hit by that trombone we've nailed the set." Make for a great story every year when we first start learning drill at my school!

PS - Every school I've taught at, we've used convertible tubas instead of sousaphones due to the back issues and potential for turtle situations.
 
LeighM

LeighM

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brifraz said:
As I continue to derail the most excellent trip report of @Loco_driver with more tuba/sousaphone related talk... I marched sousa all through high school, but switched to baritone in college due to back issues and $$ (majoring in tuba would've meant buying one and a $2000 euphonium was much easier to pull off than a $5000 tuba). Freshman year of college at JMU we were doing Phantom of the Opera and had a cool move where a line moved through a triangle with each moving opposite directions. I was in the triangle at the point where the line passed through and the timing of the move meant that I got hit by a trombone slide every time if we did it right. Yes, if we did it right. The director even said it to us all - "if brifraz gets hit by that trombone we've nailed the set." Make for a great story every year when we first start learning drill at my school!

PS - Every school I've taught at, we've used convertible tubas instead of sousaphones due to the back issues and potential for turtle situations.
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JMU - as in Harrisonburg, VA? I grew up in Charlottesville so had a lot of friends go there :) I think some even played in their marching band.
 
Loco_driver

Loco_driver

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brifraz said:
As I continue to derail the most excellent trip report of @Loco_driver with more tuba/sousaphone related talk... I marched sousa all through high school, but switched to baritone in college due to back issues and $$ (majoring in tuba would've meant buying one and a $2000 euphonium was much easier to pull off than a $5000 tuba). Freshman year of college at JMU we were doing Phantom of the Opera and had a cool move where a line moved through a triangle with each moving opposite directions. I was in the triangle at the point where the line passed through and the timing of the move meant that I got hit by a trombone slide every time if we did it right. Yes, if we did it right. The director even said it to us all - "if brifraz gets hit by that trombone we've nailed the set." Make for a great story every year when we first start learning drill at my school!

PS - Every school I've taught at, we've used convertible tubas instead of sousaphones due to the back issues and potential for turtle situations.
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That’s funny. I actually switched from trombone to euphonium and didnr play tuba until my second year of college! JMU has a great program. We lost out to them my freshman year for the sucker trophy.

littleroo said:
This is much needed live report! Have a great day and week. We are driving for the first time in June. I am a little nervous but you have inspired me!
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Thank you for following! We honestly prefer driving. It’s a pain in the rear(literally), but less stressful than flying. It’s also nice to have our car with us on property!
 

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