I must apologize for the brief intermission on posting to the blog - it is not because I don’t want to - more we are super busy and finding the time has been a challenge.

So we are off to hit the road - Tomorrow the Dave Matthews Band at the Molson Amphitheater in Toronto and then the Virgin Music Festival in Calgary over the weekend. Super excited about seeing DMB live and looking to meet up with our partners, Reverb at the show. Reverb has a crew that travels with the tour and helps take care of all sorts of greening events. We have been working with Reverb and the Dave Matthews Band by providing Ridesharing to all of the DMB concert dates. In any event - looking forward to that.

Then it is off to Calgary where we have a booth at the Eco-Village they will have setup there. O.K. some PickupPal honesty here - coming up with a booth idea that does not suck is a hard thing to do. We went through a ton of ideas and we scrapped them all and came down to a basic concept - the question I asked myself - what kinda mood am I in when I am at a multi-day festival - the answer is indulgence! So in that vain we came up with this concept - come by our booth - get your picture taken striking your best Rockstar pose in front of a massive backdrop of a couple thousand fans - then when you get home come by our website and enter your picture into our Rock-n-Roll Rideshare contest where you can win a Gibson Flying V. We are going to let all the members of PickupPal vote on who has the be Rockstar pose and the one with the most votes wins a Gibson Flying V.

The idea is that all of you PickupPal members are Rockstars - you are taking part and making a difference by doubling up and cutting down - it comes down to individual actions that make the biggest impact. Not to leave anyone out, those that are not up for posing but join in on the voting are automatically entered to win merchandise from our clothing sponsor Killthe8.com. It was awesome to get sponsored by Gibson and instead of an Ipod or something techie we went with what ever Rock and Roll maniac wants in their collection - a sweet Flying V - an Albert King, Jimi Hendrix, Randy Rhodes iconic symbol of flat out grind. So that is what we are doing in Calgary - if you are reading this and are going to be at the show come by our booth - we are between the beer tent and the food and we are facing the main stage.

One note - when STP are on stage on Saturday don’t bother coming by because the booth will be empty! Then on Sunday when the Tragically Hip take center stage - again I doubt you will see me at the booth.

NOTE: I am a huge Hip fan and I am heading out west with my bride and she is equally a huge Hip fan - so If I don’t lose here to STP definitely will have to drag her away from the Hip. Actually our first official date was seeing the Tragically Hip at Federation Hall in 1990 after I won tickets to the show on their “Up to Here” tour - so yeah I am a fan that goes way back!

Cheers - Eric
P.S. The Rock-n-Roll Rideshare “Gibson Grand Prize” is open to all PickupPal members - however I will post more details when the contest officially launches in the coming weeks.