I’m TOO Old for #OutsideLands and 65,000 Kids at a Music Festival!

Making friends! Check out Clark's outfit - she's on my left!

I took my boys to San Francisco to attend the Outside Lands Music Festival this summer. It’s one of those Woodstock-like three-day music extravaganzas. There were several stages strewn around Golden Gate Park and, given today’s sponsorships there were all kinds of companies represented, big and small. Giveaways, prizes, PR of all kinds, and amazing food abounded, along with the unmistakable aroma of weed.

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Radio Show: The Empty Nest and a Flex

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Featured guests:

Wayne Levine (BetterMenCoaching.com) for “The Men’s Room.”

Pastor Drew Sams (DrewSams.com) for “Teen Rap.”

Special Guests from Ford, Daniel Corsetti and Aaron Miller.

This show is loosely based on this week’s “A Dad’s Point-of-View” column, The Empty-Nest Cross-Country Road-Trip to College with Ford. We had the car and got rid of my empty nest blues!

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Dad’s Cool

Dad's Cool

Dad gets a 2012 Ford Flex to take his son to college. Even though I’m NOT That Dad, I got one, too – on loan from Ford for our cross-country trip to Boston! I have to say I felt so cool!

TY @VoogDesigns for another Because I Said So comic strip! Do take advantage of his special caricature offer in our ad section (scroll down a bit on the right)!

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My Empty-Nest Cross-Country Road-Trip to College with Ford

I woke my son up to show him the just-arrived 2013 Ford Flex we got for our trip!

I’m about to embark on a road trip. Not just any road trip but one with my first-born son across America from Los Angeles to Boston to begin college. Not just any road trip, but also a huge journey from childhood to adulthood for him, and from a clingy loving dad to empty nester for me. Yes, I will have my other son at home, but the first one to leave is big. Our home will not be the same and our family dynamics will not be the same. Ford has generously loaned us a fully loaded brand-new 2013 Ford Flex for the drive. We are going in style!

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