Did your family take vacations when you were a kid?

We always went to New Mexico, to the mountains, and camped out. We took our own food, rode horses, hiked, and fished. Nothing that ever cost much, but my Daddy would cook breakfast and fry fish over an open campfire and have the coffee boiling every morning. We would sleep in a musky smelling tent with cots lined up end to end where we snuggled under my Mom’s homemade quilts. It was pure heaven.

Yes we did as a matter of fact. The longest trip that we ever made was going to Colorado from Oklahoma to visit my aunt, uncle and cousins that lived there at the time. But the other trips that we took were always going to a lake. We always slept in mom and dads camper shell they have on their truck. They had a sheet of plywood in the back next to the cab and they had a mattress on that for them to sleep on and then a folding bed for each of us to sleep on. Had a “pot” to use as a toilet and had our own food and drinks as well. Mom would hang a sheet on a line that went from a tree to another tree and that is where we would change our clothes and bathe as well. It was also used to hang our wet clothes when we were done swimming for awhile. We would cook hamburgers and hot dogs over an open flame with a wire rack that had came out of an old refrigerator. Those were the good old days, lol.

Vacations EP $15.29 What started out innocently enough as a high school assessment some five years ago, has evolved into a collection of teenage impetuosity and candour, with music written beyond the years of these youngsters, steadily sharpening their sound since 2009, Having shared the stage with the likes of British India, Parades, Belles Will Ring and The Holidays, The Upskirts play loud, distorted songs with crashing beats, haunting riffs and energetic rhythms. ‘Vacations’, a 5 track EP, is The Upskirts’ debut release.

A Million Vacations $12.79 The music from this Canadian quartet still has the quirks you would expect from previous albums. But with tunes like “Paradise Skies” and “Night Flights,” they became downright accessible. “Let Go The Line” sounds uncomfortably like Toto. But it’s followed with the loopy anarchism of “Rascal Houdi,” another song from frontman Kim Mitchell that keeps the proceedings from getting too predictable. ~ Mark Allan, Rovi Performers: Carla Jensen – Vocals; David Myles – Vocals, Bass; Dick Heckstall-Smith – Percussion; Gary McCracken – Drums, Vocals; Judy Donnelly – Vocals; Kim Mitchell – Vocals, Guitar; Terry Watkinson – Keyboards, Vocals

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