You can take the bus to CEC's Hoedown tomorrow in Palisade

Friday, October 21 6-11pm
CEC's Harvest Hoedown
Palisade Brewing Company
200 Peach Avenue, Palisade, CO
Cost: $18 (advance), $20 at the door, children 12 and under free
Bus: 4 to go (schedule is slowloading PDF), free shuttle to get back

The last 4 bus will take you to the Palisade Brewing Company where the event is being held, but how would you get back? Luckily the Colorado Environmental Coalition (CEC) is running a shuttle when the show ends at 11 pm. The shuttle goes to the Peach Tree Shopping Center in Clifton, the Safeway on F Road and 29th, the Ale House at 12th and Patterson, the Moss Performing Arts Center on the CMU Campus, and downtown Grand Junction at 7th and Main.

All tickets include bluegrass music by Waiting on Trial and a free beer. Buying online enters you in a drawing to win a CEC T-shirt and a gift-certificate for two beer-filled growlers form the Palisade Brewing Company. (You must be present at the drawing to win.) Dinner will be available for $9 and there will be a silent auction, mainly of travel good and outdoor gear.

This could be a part of a possible train trip. The journey from Glenwood Springs costs $36 round trip. You leave Glenwood Springs at 1:53 pm and arrive in Grand Junction at 3:57. Typically, this train runs a couple of hours late, so this might be a good option for a last minute trip if you can get out of work early. Watch the price though. The return leaves at 10:23 and arrives in Glenwood Springs at 12:10. This train is more likely to be on time. There are several hotels or B&B's in downtown Grand Junction and a few (more expensive) in Palisade.

And if you go to this by transit, make sure that you tell your elected officials AND the organizers of the event that you did. We need to get more funding for transit and we need to get the environmental organizations that we support to advocate for transit more.