Twenty-three year-old Ben Pomeroy and two friends
left their home in Greenville, South Carolina, Friday
morning on a road trip to see old friends. Twenty-two
hours later, they joined the line on I-91 with thousands
of others waiting to enter tiny Coventry, Vermont,
where friends Trey, Page, Mike and Jon would be arriving
soon. However, Ben and most of the masses had never
even met the four men. They only knew them as the
band Phish, who played their final shows last weekend.
But tragedy seemed to befall Pomeroy when he heard
the band's management was turning vehicles away due
to torrential rains that rendered huge areas of the
600-acre concert site unusable. But after their 1000-mile
journey, Pomeroy and friends wouldn't take "no"
for an answer. They locked their car, grabbed all
they could carry, and began the eight-hour hike...[Read
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