Time for the fan trip!

The Final Rick Springfield Friends Get-Away in Punta Cana is this week!

This long-awaited trip was originally supposed to happen in November 2019 then it got postponed due to some news stories at the time and was rescheduled to May 2020 in Cancun, Mexico. (As you know, THAT one didn’t happen, along with pretty much everything else after March that year.) I think it was rescheduled at that time for sometime in 2021 then was eventually cancelled.

But you can’t just cancel and not rebook the final fan trip, so fortunately it was rescheduled for this week. (But unfortunately I couldn’t go, which is a bummer because I’m sure it will be amazing!)

So I will keep this short and you should go check out his FB page and the RS FB fan groups because there will probably be lots of fun videos there over the next few days (the trip is Oct. 5-9). RS will be there with his best bud Doug Davidson, as well as Mark Goodman, John Waite, actor Eric Martsolf and Mr. Kite & The Henderson’s (Rick’s Beatles cover band.)

I’ll just sign off for now, sitting here not in Punta Cana, writing a blog post in a Beach Bar Rum T-shirt. Cheers.

To everyone who is fortunate to be there – have an incredible time!

The final Rick Springfield + friends get-away scheduled for Oct. 5-9

The announcement has been made. Tickets have been purchased. Fun is to be had.

(For lots of RS fans anyway, not necessarily me, unfortunately…)

Last week, the RS team announced that the “Final Rick Springfield + Friends Getaway” has been planned for Oct. 5-9 at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.

The all-inclusive event will feature musical guests John Waite and Mr. Kite & the Hendersons (a Beatles tribute band that includes RS), special friends Doug Davidson and Eric Martsolf and host Mark Goodman.

The event includes live performances, meet & greets, Q&A, drinks with RS and additional evets. Sounds incredible!

This “final” trip was originally scheduled at this resort for November 2019 but a few months before that several American tourists became ill or died while visiting the Caribbean country so the RS team decided to move it to Hard Rock Cancun, Mexico in May 2020 instead. And well, you can guess what happened to that 2020 plan.

Hopefully everyone who was expecting to attend the trip in 2019 will be able to head to Punta Cana this October, along with everyone else who wishes to go. The timing isn’t great for me as we have a big family event planned the following week, so I’ll have to rely on social media posts to experience the trip.

I’m not loving the “final” part of the trip name. It sounds so final. Like they’ll never be another opportunity to hang out with RS at a resort again. I totally understand, it’s a lot of work to put on something like this and pretty exhausting for all involved. But still, “final” sounds so final.

Random thought: On rickspringfield.com, the ad for the trip says “One Last Kiss!” but it’s not on the trip website, rickspringfieldgetaway.com/. I wonder if “One Last Kiss” is a song off the album he’s working on? If I can’t look forward to the fan trip, I can at least look forward to some new songs, right?!