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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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Pets, Music Festivals, RVing, and the Open Road

Thinking of hitting the road or your next music festival with your pet? You’re not alone. Tripadvisor says more than half of pet owners travel with their pets and most stay only at pet-friendly properties. When the sign says, “No Pets Allowed,” one in five pet owners will smuggle them in anyway. A website called pet-friendly travel “complicated.”

Photo Courtesy Chewy.com
Courtesy Chewy.com

One property that’s generally not pet-friendly is the music festival. Lockn Festival warns that pets found in a vehicle or camping area will be turned away. Peach Festival welcomes only service dogs. And miniature horses (that’d be a hoot to see roaming the festival grounds). Peach says it vets (so to speak) all pets first, to avoid “large-scale animal service fraud.”

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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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Home Office Highway: Americana a Way Norman Rockwell Never Envisioned

Summertime’s a great time to hit the open road – without leaving life behind. Technology widely available to the consumer market helps the “anywhere” office – and online personality – come alive without an electrical outlet or Ethernet cable in sight. This is Americana in a way Norman Rockwell never could have imagined.

This summer, the Home Office Highway ‘11 road show will showcase the tech, tools and tips that empower people to work and play from the interstate highway – or the information superhighway. The three-week excursion and social media event will highlight how “location independence” can be found wherever life’s journey ventures.

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The Lonely Planet Offers Smart Global Travel Tips

Hitting the road to locales little known? Travel wisely. With the right tools and plans, you can travel light – and like a pro – no matter where the open road takes you on this lonely planet…