That Twang and Trains and Hillbilly Thang!

Country Thunder is the Woodstock of country music.  It has come to Arizona in April for the last 20 years and we have never attended. Well this year it was the VIP treatment. Mike received free tickets for the SRP VIP event.  Salt River Project is our power company and we figured with all those high summer electric bills we have to pay, we would take advantage of their hospitality. We invited my cousin Mary and her husband Dan to go along with us. Apparently someone in the SRP head office must like that twang and trains and hillbilly thang.

 

The event is held at a ranch just outside of Florence, AZ.  That's about an hour from home if there are no traffic delays. There are about 100,000 people who camp for four days for this event. When we got to the entrance it looked like we had reached the Arizona/Mexico border. Then Mike says "what about this VIP treatment?"  So they let us cut past all these people and got that parking spot that you always wish for.



SRP had their own tent right in front of the stage and free drinks were flowing.

 

 

 

The night brought a catered dinner and more country singers.

This is the only way to go to Country Thunder. All those thousands of people in front of us jam packed next to each other and here we are with our special seats with full service, even had flushing toilets. Now that's VIP.

They even took souvenir photos for us to take home.

Good Times!  Hope we can go VIP again next year.