Water Canyon and Joshua Tree

Elysa and I opened up for awesome LA-based singer songwriter John Elliot (www.thehereafterishere.com) Saturday night at Water Canyon, then we all partied out in the desert at Tad's getaway house, just outside of Joshua Tree national park. The next day we went hiking and Michael, Tad, Tim and I climbed this crazy rock formation thing. I'm waiting for Tad, Tim or Melanie to send me some pics of this trip.

Austin, Texas for SXSW

Austin considers itself the "Live Music Capital of the World," and at least for the week of the South by Southwest music festival, it really is. The whole city turns into a giant rock show, with hundreds of bands in every bar, club, store, park, cafe, restaurant - basically anywhere that has people, has live music.

I got to hang out and play music with some of my good friends from U of I who ended up moving to Austin, see some friends from the West coast who were also in town for the festivities, and meet a whole bunch of cool new people and musicians from all over the world. Some highlights were; jamming with David Moss (Illinois native - now rocking his cello full time in Austin), and a band of jug band pirates from Vermont who rolled in on a psychedelic school bus that runs on veggie oil, going to a backyard show in the hill country with Carrie

, seeing seeing Green Mountain Grass (http://www.greenmountaingrass.net/) wow passersby while busking on 6th Street, and playing acoustic with Raina Rose (http://www.rainarose.com/) on my last night in town.

Raina on guitar and Trevor on mandolin

Park City, Utah Ski Trip

This weekend I flew to Salt Lake City where I met up with my sister Christine, my brother-in-law Brad, my mom and her cousin Donna and headed to Donna and Dave's second home in Park City. We skiied Deer Valley Friday to let everyone get their ski legs back on the nice, wide-open (no snowboarders allowed), groomed runs. Dave flew in Friday night and the five of us drove over to Solitude Saturday morning. It snowed in the morning and then got up near 60 degrees in the afternoon. Perfect spring skiing! Sunday we skiied Park City. Never before had I gotten to the top of the highest lift, only to take off my skis and hike up to the top of a ridge of ungroomed snow and ski off a cliff, but I did on this trip - thanks to Dave. Hopefully we will make this an annual event.