Usually, I have been getting up by 6 am to get an early start, but today I started at 7:45. Stone Lagoon to Dry Lagoon and that darn tide I keep running into. Then, of course, there had to be a camp cat who came over to visit. At first I thought the Elk were fake, but then I saw them move. Tiredly, I walked down the road to ask about a tent space. Pleasant Dreams in Elk CountryĪs I was walking, I saw a camping area called Elk Country. I have learned that it is not a problem to walk in wet shoes for miles. I had to take off my shoes to wade through the water. As usual, when hiking in Nor Cal there always seems to be a river or ocean on your path. It was neat because there were horses I was following. After I left, instead of taking the 101 there was a grassy levy that was following the same direction. She told me of many of the activities they have each year. The lady that runs the place is part of the Yurok tribe. It is big and heavy.) It was pretty tasty. I can’t wait until I can send this bear can home. I usually try to eat one filling meal each day and then little snacks I have in my bear canister along the way. I stopped at the snack shack for a bite to eat in Orick. Lunch at Orick, levy walk, accidental shoe drop in the river and the Redwood Visitor Center. This part of the 101 wasn’t too bad because on the opposite side of the metal barriers was cement. One thing I would like to mention is that on this trail there is some walking on the highway. I got lucky because as I was walking the 101 I saw a large herd of Elk.

The alternative route I took was to take Davidson all the way to the 101. The CCT goes through Skunk Cabbage Trail but it was closed because of storm damage.

Once I left Gold Bluff I headed out on Davidson Road in Prairie Creek Park. Plus, the irony isn’t lost on me that I’m complaining about repetition for a record that opens with the line, “ It seems everything’s been done to death.Skunk Cabbage Trail to Orick and oh the Elk!!! I’m really intrigued at Kid You Not and there’s a viable energy to their sound that’s takes the short attention span of pop-punk and mixes it with something punchier, with a rumbling current underneath that surface. This is coming across more negative than intended. There are moving choruses and fist-in-the-air cathartic moments, but the songs are just a little too heavy on this aspect without more balance and texture, which leads to songs like “Me and Dead Owls Don’t Give a Hoot” to feel repetitive, repeating a lyrical couplet and riding that high energy moment instead of taking it a step further. Too often across Never A Dull Movement, well…it’s far from dull, but it’s just too similar to other artists to leap from the speakers.

It’s played similarly in “Smoke Another Beer.” Drury sings with a bit more passion that nicely complements the overall shout-along style, over lines like: The lyrics stress frustration with the world with a trying-to-push-through-it-but-don’t-know-if-I-can tone. There’s a little more movement within the verses, with Patrick Drury’s vocals rising and falling a little more, giving subtle variation amid the repetitive chorus. “Be A Lot Cooler If You Did” is one of the standouts, and in this song it covers all those same traits. The best moments come through when the rhythm section push forward in songs like “There’s No Crying in Baseball” or “No Shirt No Shoes No Dice,” giving a harder edge to counteract the melodies that top it all off. The band writes earworm songs with a lot of whoa-oh material, but they rely a little too heavily on that soaring moment instead of breaking from the current. The overall sound is punchy and easy to latch onto. These are some cynical songs that wallow in an unpleasant world.Īs a whole, this is a solid record with some flaws.

With semi-coarse vocals that lead to big sing-along choruses, Iron Chic and Red City Radio shine through. Kid You Not has some pretty clear influences behind their melodic pop-punk sound. Kid You Not – Never A Dull Movement - Deep Elm, 2017

Not a dull moment