The Washington DC metro area has a great lindy hop scene. There is live music and multiple dance options just about every night of the week. Whether you like classic lindy, rock-a-billy and jitterbug, balboa, blues, or fusion, you can get a fix several times a week. However, some weeks are better than others and last weekend was one of the weekends at the better end of the scale. There wasn’t a large international event going on like ILHC coming up this weekend. No, this was just 2 of the main lindy hop organizations in town brining in big names for weekend dances…  just because.

The Liquorice Stick

A bull rider comes out of the gate at the Rodeo.

I grew up in a small town in Texas named Seguin. Every year in October the county held a fair and rodeo and every year I would go to the midway for my birthday. It has been a few years (well, quite a few) since I’ve been to a small town fair and rodeo.  When we decided to go to the Loudoun county fair I wasn’t expecting the that type of experience. Loudoun county is only an hour from our apartment and my (all be it limited) experience with things an hour from DC is that they are overrun by city dwellers (like myself) trying to escape the city.