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Major Save: Salvaging Our Music Festival Roadtrip From Near-Total Blowout

The best-laid roadtrips often get blown out. This story begins about a year ago when Barry and Jen had a tire blowout on the road to Hulaween. Once home, Barry replaced Bertha’s crappy “Chinabomb” tires with what we came to realize – yesterday on Florida’s Turnpike – were another set of crappy Chinabombs. A blowout left us stranded on the roadside – with one tire shredded and another punctured, and the brass fittings of the LP gas lines serving the fridge and stove sheared off.

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Concierge Medicine: Another Form of RV, Camping & Music Festival Travel ‘Insurance’

One glance at the fan base of any music and arts festival makes clear today’s festivals aren’t just for young turks. While they may not be Mick, Keef and the boys (as seen above, courtesy Getty Images), Baby Boomer roadtrippers and other middle-aged – ahem, Golden – travelers are hitting the highway and festival scene in record numbers.  One thing they realize that younger fans often deny: They aren’t invincible. So staying healthy on the road or at a music festival is important.

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RVing and Music Festivals: Making Bicycles Welcome

Curt Manufacturing clamp-on bike rack (image courtesy eTrailer)

When we bought our Ford F150 to tow our travel trailer to music festivals and campgrounds, we thought we had all the capacity we needed. With a four-door crew cab spacious enough for five and a large bed with a hard tonneau cover, we envisioned loading it with lots of stuff and room to spare. Except, we came to find, for our bikes. With the bed packed with other camping supplies and our trailer manufacturer fairly adamant about never attaching anything to the rear bumper or installing a hitch to the stern, how would we shuttle our bikes to our fav fests? We found that a number of manufacturers have it all figured out. Now, which solution was best…?

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9 More Tips to Elevating Your Festival Campsite – Part 2

With the festival camping season approaching, we’re exploring how to elevate your festival and camping experience. Last time, RoadtripMojo offered up some personal items in our Top 11 Festival Survival Tips. This time, we’ll poke around the campsite. Again, some of this you may say, “Thanks, Capt. Obvious!” But we suspect some tips or uses might be new to you.

Like we said before, we all have this habit of letting excitement overcome reason when the indescribable buzz of entering the festival grounds kicks in. That said…

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10 Tips for Dead Heads Playing in the Sand

By Barry Bluth

Fresh off Panic en la Playa Siete, it dawned on us to share some tips for enjoying the special destination that is the Mexican coast. If you’ve never been to this stretch of Mexican waterfront, or the Barceló Maya Beach, it’s a magical place that’s an over-the-top venue for any band. If you’re Playa-bound for Dead & Co., you’re in for a real treat. But only if you plan ahead…

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