The summer of 1982 was a blast. Instead of going back to Fort Wayne, for the summer, I stayed on campus and worked. Vermont Academy would host these big science or language conferences in the summer. About a dozen of us students stayed on and worked as waiters and waitresses or in the kitchen. The work wasn’t hard and I had a rather large amount of fun.
Thursday nights were Drive-In nights. We’d fill a cooler with wine and ice then head of to Bellows Falls Drive-In in Ralf’s 1940’s truck. We’d park the truck backwards and just hang out and have a good time. I saw about half of a lot of good movies that summer.
Vacation by the Go-Go’s came out in August of that year and it was probably the first time that I knew that a new album was being released and was in a position to buy it almost immediately. I’ll be honest and say that after all this time I still prefer Beauty And The Beat but Vacation was good and has several tracks that are near and dear.
I actually included the lyrics of the song Vacation in a card to a young lady that I was interested in at the time. We had worked together all summer and some unexpected sparks flew. It was at the close of the conference and I was headed out to Indiana for a month. When I got back to Saxtons River in September, we hung together once or twice but the magic that we discovered at the drive-in had faded.
Vacation
He’s so Strange
Get Up And Go
This Old Feeling – This is probably my favorite track from Vacation something about it reached me. Maybe it was the theme of new love.
Cool Jerk
Worlds Away