#goldunitflashback

Circusfans, I’ve just renewed my domain goldencircusdays.com for another year, so I’m committed to keeping this little site afloat and adding to it as regularly as I can! It’s approaching six months since RBBB’s Gold Unit closed, and I’m just now finally getting around to editing my images from the final performance.  I’ll be sharing via Facebook as well as here, so please FOLLOW me there if we…

This was usually our favorite time of tour, the time when we start pointing our rigs west and driving towards the Rocky Mountains and beyond.  Ben and I love Colorado and the Pacific Northwest.  Hard to believe we’ve already wrapped our last trip.

I just wanted to share a handful of images from last year’s trek west (2015 trip forthcoming).  The show’s last city before the Labor Day break in 2014 was Baton Rouge, and we drove to San Diego, then to San Francisco, and then up to Portland over the course of about nine days.  Truly a GLORIOUS trip in pretty much every way.

People of the Gold Unit: Gabby Perry

At long last, the bread-and-butter of what this blog was always intended to be:  an archive of stories and images of the people of the Gold Unit.  We’re starting off with the lovely Gabby Perry. Golden Circus Days:  What was your role with the show?  Please describe your job. Gabby Perry:  I worked in concessions.  I made snow cones, cotton candy, etc. I also made children and co-workers laugh…

While the usual Ringmaster has briefly gone off tour to take care of some family matters, the multi-talented Saturn Garcia has assumed the role.  Normally a motorcycle globe rider with the Garcia G-Force Riders, Saturn really seemed quite comfortable in the ring despite the short notice. I’m sorry for the blog-silence; I launched before I had too much in the way of plans to keep it consistent!  I…

Hello from the midwest, friends.

I shot the show tonight from a really great vantage point on what I’d call “side two”; that is to say — if you are coming out of the portal I was sitting on your left-hand side.  I have an all-access pass but I hatethe worry of knowing I could be sitting in someone’s paid seats, so I frequently shoot from a mediocre spot until all the latecomers’ butts are in…