Sky Blue Underground Adventures

Sky Blue Underground Adventures Pushing the boundaries of Music, Culinary, athletic pursuits, often in underground ways and places ( Profit is irrelevant. Musicians referral as well, just call.

The concept of Sky Blue underground adventures was to link the many friends I have in different fields and circles with common tastes. It started many years ago with backpacking trips in remote deserts and mountains, (sometimes in places of LIMITED ACCESS) and accelerated with whitewater kayaking trips, also of an underground nature. Hence, opening an underground lounge promoting acts who deserve

a venue, (despite a Chicago music scene that doesn't exactly welcome its players with open arms) seemed the perfect fit. The same missionary spirit applies here as in the rest of my life. This place may never be Nashville, Memphis, or Austin, but that's all the more reason to embrace each other musically. There are plans in the making for free lessons for the disadvantaged kids in my community, and I'll be a posting board for my friends bands and other events. Again, the Underground Adventures are underground because of their inherent risks, enough disclaimer. Peace, my friends!

Last night my better half insinuated that I could use a long walk and catch the sunset so I took her up on it. She found...
01/09/2020

Last night my better half insinuated that I could use a long walk and catch the sunset so I took her up on it. She found an artesian well in the Kishwaukee River preserve then led me to what appears the type of place our early native Americans might have considered sacred. After a bottle of cider we made a dash to catch the sunset by Baumann park hill. Not surprised I fell out for about a 10 hour sleep, but she’s insinuating she needs a walk again…

Half moon in mid sky well before the sunset, creating some eerie lighting effects. Then comes the din of the geese flyin...
01/06/2020

Half moon in mid sky well before the sunset, creating some eerie lighting effects. Then comes the din of the geese flying towards the last rays of daylight. Very slowly the days seem to be getting longer

Historic route 66 has it’s allure, but at some point life on the road can get old. Maybe it’s just that the gray mid wes...
12/07/2019

Historic route 66 has it’s allure, but at some point life on the road can get old. Maybe it’s just that the gray mid western skies followed me to the Mexican border and back, but kicking back with a guitar in the recording studio has a shiny new allure. 
But historic winter weather conditions around the country couldn’t put a damper on all there is to see in this great land we inhabit, and I am blessed to have great family to visit and share this with. I urge anyone to embrace their sense of adventure and see the sights, to visit (or revisit) this country’s many natural wonders. From the pits of Badwater in the lowest desert, to the glaciers to still be found in this country human impact continues to leave it’s mark day by day and you need to catch this show before before it’s transfigured beyond recognition.
With any luck maybe my brother Dr. Rock will pull some permits for a rafting trip on the Rio Chama in the early summer, would be good to spend more time exploring these sacred lands with the sun on our backs. Maybe I can up my mountain biking skills between now and then, hate to slow a brother down…

Tuesday morning found my canine companion and myself heading into the Guadalupe Mountains in Texas, one of my fave deser...
11/22/2019

Tuesday morning found my canine companion and myself heading into the Guadalupe Mountains in Texas, one of my fave desert cliffs sabbaticals out there. But although I’d seen dogs there many times they weren’t allowed on the peaks so we hung in the lowlands. Wednesday brought thunderstorms so we headed to Cloudcroft via Carlsbad caverns and Sitting Bull falls, 60 mph gusts on the mountain ridges the whole ride, white knuckles all the way up to 8200 ft elevation at our campsite. Thursday, 10 miles of great trails and back in Las Cruces. So nice, hot shower and internet again, but tomorrow’s campsite is the Roblados mountains dinosaur trackways...

So refreshing to be truly “off the grid” for a week and revisiting old haunts in the mountains and deserts of Texas and ...
11/22/2019

So refreshing to be truly “off the grid” for a week and revisiting old haunts in the mountains and deserts of Texas and New Mexico. Started it off in the Jemez mountains/valle grande watching falling stars and satellites. (Think alien cow abduction) Mass the next morn, visited my fave old Pueblo/mission before the springs, which were 15 years ago red hot but not so much now. Last time I was here was with my partner in adventure Dr. David Rockstraw and we were racing to stay ahead of forest fires ravaging the forest that year, and the scars of that big burn still evident everywhere. Still, the pine forest smells like an old friend.

As soon as the blizzard hit I packed my camper and jumped on historic route 66 heading west. Three cold nights in the ca...
11/15/2019

As soon as the blizzard hit I packed my camper and jumped on historic route 66 heading west. Three cold nights in the camper to get to Albuquerque, but brilliant daylight sunshine is beginning to warm my Midwestern bones already. My game plan is to revisit my favorite primitive campsites, Hot Springs, ancient native American dwellings, and a list of missions/pueblos that I have yet to visit. And as usual, always looking for my next dream home in a musical mountain town. The western horizon is calling my name…

The spring warming trend brings forth an abundance of life, of all forms. Along the Kishwaukee my curious pup tried to p...
05/04/2019

The spring warming trend brings forth an abundance of life, of all forms. Along the Kishwaukee my curious pup tried to play Kissy face with what looked like a king snake. Closer investigation without the dog reveals a 2 foot long baby timber rattler which hasn’t sprouted it’s tail yet. Yes, there are actually two species of venomous snake in northern Illinois

Divinely inspired and crafted, encouraging pastel enthusiasts everywhere! Spring time brings the northern Illinois river...
05/04/2019

Divinely inspired and crafted, encouraging pastel enthusiasts everywhere! Spring time brings the northern Illinois river corridors into bloom and it couldn’t be soon enough

Woke up from another night in the solitude at Cumberland State Park where there was not another camper in the park. But ...
02/18/2019

Woke up from another night in the solitude at Cumberland State Park where there was not another camper in the park. But my gout foot was too swollen to get in a boot, never mind the climbing shoes. So we packed up and pulled the 20 Hour drive the long way through the Smokies and slept hard. I was sad to have cited so much roadkill along the way due to loss of habitat. I saw a red fox and a larger golden one, A bobcat in Alabama, multiple eagles, and the usual vermin you find in all the states. I’m sure all those vermin wish they got to live in the primitive places I got to hang all week. Woke up with enough daylight to clean the vehicle and trailer and went to sleep. When I got up I again questioned why I came back, bad foot or not to a mid western winter.

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