11 Tips to Elevating Your Festival Experience – Part 1

Festival season will soon be upon us. So here is our first set of RoadtripMojo’s Top 20 Festival Survival Tips. With many multi-day fests and destination music events under our belt, some of these you may already know or find completely obvious. Some you may never have thought of. Even for those with fest experience, it’s easy to throw caution to the wind – or just forget the essentials – especially when the indescribable buzz of entering the festival grounds kicks in.

So RoadtripMojo and our resident Hippie Chick have a few tips to share so you won’t be That Guy – or Gal

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Checklists Help Remember Camping & Music Festival Supplies

We hit the road a few weeks ago for a two-night trip to the Red Coconut RV Resort in Fort Myers Beach. We weren’t five miles down the road when I realized I’d forgotten my iPad and cigars.

I didn’t double back. But the realization got me thinking about what else I might have forgotten that trip (nothing important, thankfully) and on past trips (various clothes and food stuffs, our Snap & Zap towing mirrors, even the anti-sway bar – total freshman fail).

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Jack’s Sack: A Road Warrior’s Org-Tool

Fans of 24 will recall the messenger bag / shoulder tote that Jack Bauer used to carry. It held various Secret Agent tools – nuclear bomb deactivation tools, that ubiquitous “handheld” to which CTI could send building schematics.

Never saw him pull out lunch or a pair of car keys, though.

Jack Bauer & the Jack Sack
Jack Bauer & the Jack Sack

Still, I wanted a bag dripping in such utility. Functional, not too girlish. Effective enough to carry all my stuff, but still macho enough so as not to bring my manhood into question (no, it’s neither a manpurse NOR a European shoulder bag). Apparently, you can find one here.

Any home office worker, teleworker or other mobile tech / road warrior likely could appreciate this lament.

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