Dos Dias -Two Days!

Only two days to go! Our apartment is almost empty, we dropped off an entire truckload of stuff off at Goodwill yesterday, and a bunch of stuff in storage today (Thank you Elizabeth, you rock!). We've still got a lot of tedious work to cram into the next two days, but I think we'll make it... Stay tuned to find out...
We've got a few places in Panama lined up, we can't wait! We're starting out by spending a couple of nights in Panama city (Hotel Marparaiso), then we're moving on to El Valle. It's a small town in the crater of an extinct volcano. It looks like we'll be visiting the family of one of our Portland friends there. And we found a really fun looking hostel near Boquete and David called "The Lost and Found". Then we'll be moving on to Costa Rica to visit our friends at Verdenergia.
We'll be trying to get a couple more posts up before we go. We'll see...

Epic Night

Our going away party was an epic night.

There were a ton of our friends and Artichoke family there to see us off. There were so many surprises including Jim Morris premiering his first ever performance of his first original tune, Mike's 10 year old guitar student Maya Vigil and her dad Ken performing a Latin American tune together. Frank Stovall brought a spread and played some fiddle. A jam session happened at the end of the night, so it went pretty late. We brought some homebrew, we made some new friends, it was phenomenal.

Thanks to everyone who made it such an amazing experience, we love you all.

We've got some more videos posted to the web, and have some more on the way when we get some more free time.

The Wind -with John Sabestinas and Samantha Mudd
Uploaded by Mike_Mudd

Below -with Paul Edward Sanchez
Uploaded by Mike_Mudd

Dos dias

Only two days to go! Our apartment is almost empty, we dropped off an entire truckload of stuff off at Goodwill yesterday, and a bunch of stuff in storage today (Thank you Elizabeth, you rock!). We've still got a lot of tedious work to cram into the next two days, but I think we'll make it... Stay tuned to find out...
We've got a few places in Panama lined up, we can't wait! We're starting out by spending a couple of nights in Panama city (Hotel Marparaiso), then we're moving on to El Valle. It's a small town in the crater of an extinct volcano. It looks like we'll be visiting the family of one of our Portland friends there. And we found a really fun looking hostel near Boquete and David called "The Lost and Found". Then we'll be moving on to Costa Rica to visit our friends at Verdenergia.
We'll be trying to get a couple more posts up before we go. We'll see...

Artichoke Music Sendoff Party

 The send-off party at artichoke music was amazing! There were great performances by a bunch of talented musicians. And many of our best friends were there to share the fun. We'll miss our Portland "family" so much while we're gone!


More to come on that epic evening!

Good Times

The send off party at artichoke music was awesome! There were great performances by a bunch of talented musicians. And many of our best friends were there to share the fun. We'll miss our Portland "family" so much while we're gone!

Dos Semanas -Two Weeks!

Two weeks?! We've been sooo busy. We've got our passports and are almost done with immunizations.

Dos Semanas -Two Weeks

Two weeks?! We've been sooo busy. We've got our passports and are almost done with immunizations.

Mike did his last Science Museum set up, which was putting together dinosaurs.


Check out our new Flickr account where we'll be posting photos of our adventures. Right now there are a few dozen pictures of the dinosaur setup.

Goin' South

We're packing our bags and heading South. We'll be on our way to Central America in three weeks! We'll be traveling by bus across Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and Belize (Give or take a couple of countries). There are a several awesome places we'll be visiting along the way. We'll be blogging the trip as we go. We should be compiling some great video and pictures as well as some interesting stories.

We've been planning our adventure for a while but now the clock is ticking down. We're in the process of selling most of our stuff and consolidating down to our backpacks. Our departure date is February 24th.

Siete Semanas -7 Weeks

7 weeks before The Mudds' Central American Adventure begins. 5 chances to hear me play in Portland before I leave. Matt Meighan hooked me up with a couple of shows at Albina Green. ~8pm or so 'till whenever.



I also got some more videos cut and on the web, I think I'll be able to get 8 or 9 total. There have been a few audio difficulties so I'm having to re-upload a couple things, but I'm not complaining, this stuff isn't meant for prime time...

New Year's House Concert -Mr. Sun

Here's the first of several tunes from my house concert at Mom's on the 1st. -Mr. Sun.

Click the picture to play it.

The show was great fun, and I thank everyone who made it happen.

I managed to get a descent mix with the audio from my little recorder and the a/v that my step-dad George captured. But I've had to work for about 20 hours to work out all the bugs and actually get it online. What a freakin' pain...