I might have mentioned a time or two, or a dozen times, that I am a big fan of U2. So when tickets went on sale for their latest tour I knew I had to see them. I've seen every tour since Popmart and didn't want to miss the latest tour, but when tickets went on sale for the U.S. stops, nothing was listed in the Bay Area. The closest options where Pasadena or Las Vegas. Being a working journalist - which means I don't have a lot of expendable cash (and the tickets were already pricey) or free time - so I thought going to Pasadena would require less time and money.
But when I bought the tickets for Pasadena there was one big thing I didn't take into account - the venue for tomorrow's concert is the Rose Bowl. It hit home about two months ago when I started getting mass e-mails from the Rose Bowl staff encouraging U2 ticketholders to pre-pay for parking or shuttle bus passes and that the parking lots would open at noon - for a 7 p.m. concert. The first e-mail said 96,000 people are expected at the concert. That is a lot of people to transport to a venue. Suddenly, the quick trip to Pasadena seemed like it might require a little more planning. So we rented a hotel room near Old Town Pasadena, got tickets to one of the shuttles, and planned for an earlier arrival time just in case there is mass traffic on the highways and streets of Pasadena.
By this time tomorrow, I will be wading through a sea of people to my seat, awaiting the Edge, Bono, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. For anyone who hasn't scored tickets for the concert and wants to see it, it is supposed to be played live on YouTube at 8:30 p.m. PST.
Now I better go find those tickets and prep for the long drive early tomorrow...
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