Driving there took two and a half hours, and our tour lasted until twilight, with a few deviations from our plan, but we managed to visit and photograph every site we had mapped out: besides the obligatory Big Pink pilgrimage, we successfully found nine other Band locations, one of which we stumbled upon purely by chance. Our tour culminated with a wonderful sushi dinner. (And, no, we didn't just get sushi because Levon likes it... we are genuine sushi addicts ourselves.)

To see our four-page tour, keep reading. Please note that all photographs were taken by Laura or Dean W. Petix (most of them by Laura) and all driving was conducted by Dean. Do not reproduce any of this material without explicit permission, and do not attempt this tour at unsafe speeds or states of consciousness! Best experienced while listening to Music From Big Pink, The Band, and The Basement Tapes. (We began with "The Weight".)