Too Much Fun

I wrote about my friend Ricky's vacation to Quebec City, but now I'm going to let him tell you in his own words about his first time in one of my favorite places. For years, we've worked together in the music business, the PR business, and now in the travel business and as you'll see, his photographs are wonderful and his take on the Summer Music Festival (since he's a professional musician) picks up on things I might never have noticed.

Too Much Fun…by Ricky Wilcox
Our recent decision to visit Quebec City for it's European flair resulted in a harmonic convergence of the best possible kind...so much stuff was going on at the same time that it was overwhelming- but in a good way! The week we went was part of the Quebec City Summer Festival...a massive, eclectic music festival on a bunch of stages around town. Also, Cirque du Soleil was doing FREE street shows under a highway overpass (once we found it), an amazing show with full production. There was a major audio visual presentation called The Image Mill; uber-creative projections on a row of the port's mill towers, also FREE, and a planned night time tight rope crossing: The Legendary Crossing by Ramon Kelvink Jr...directly in front of our hotel! (uh-also FREE...just look up) Unfortunately, rainy weather caused several cancellations of the crossing. We were there by traveler’s luck for all the cancellations, then they decided to just do it during the day (before it rained)- of course- the only day we decided to rent a car and get out of town. Missing the walk was a big disappointment, but the day trip to Canyon Sainte Anne and Chute Montmorency was awesome; kick ass waterfalls with crazy/ scary pedestrian bridges. Well worth 'getting out of Dodge' for...