RV & Music Festival First Aid Kits For When Stuff Happens

When you’re on the road, stuff happens. So you have a roadside hazard kit – a jack, maybe cones and flares, and roadside assistance plans for the RV, the trailer, and the tow vehicle.  But what if stuff happens to you, a traveling companion, or a person in need of assistance? You’ve got your health coverage. But do you have a first-aid kit on board? When Bandaids and aspirin don’t cut it, make sure your kit does.

This is a refreshed blog first published a while back. With music festival and camping season upon us, it’s always a good time to take inventory of your first aid supplies.

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Music Festival Producers Hope to End ‘Long Intermission’

Camping at a pre-Covid FloydFest

When people gathered at the St. Augustine Amphitheater in January for JJ Gray and Mofro, or The Yarmouth Drive-In on Cape Cod for Goose last fall, or the Cheshire Fairgrounds in Swanzey, New Hampshire in October for a moe drive-in show, these could have been just any other concerts.

But far from it. After months of pandemic purgatory, they were the first chances for bands to re-emerge from lock down and return to the stage; for stagehands and countless supporting industries to get back to work; and for fans to once again enjoy live music in a “Covid-safe” environment.

Some have called this long strange trip “a long intermission” in the life of live music. It’s coming back cautiously and to a mixed welcome by even the most loyal, FOMO-wracked music lovers eager for a music festival – all the better if some festival camping is thrown in.

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The Big Picture: RV Cameras Lend Clarity to Camper Travel

There’s a saying popular among the RV set. “Sorry What I Said While Parking The Camper.” To those who know, this statement should come as no surprise. Found on shirts, stickers, and even flags, it shines a bright, incriminating light on the frustration borne from parking – backing in, specifically – an RV or travel trailer.

It’s a reasonable, auditory knee-jerk response to an exasperating exercise. No matter how many times we back the rig into a campsite, the geometry involved – often with trees trunks and limbs, power posts and spigots, and other assorted obstacles inconveniently placed about – makes us appreciate (if maybe curse) those who seemingly do it with ease.

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Campers & RVers: Why We Hit the Road Again

When COVID-19 hit, Mary and Scott Hercik-Sladek started canceling camping and festival camping reservations. Partly to cut back a bit, partly out of a healthy concern about getting sick, they pulled the plugs on all their events. Even if they wanted to camp, managers at parks, campgrounds, and other campsites, at least those that were open, everyone was saying, “Camp at your own risk.” Who wants to risk that?

In time, when COVID seemed to chill a bit, they decided to hitch up the trailer and head out – with their fear in check. “Once we finally started camping again, it instantly became our escape from the world of COVID,” she said. “Since it’s just Scott and I, we can go from our home to the campground and back home without having to speak to another soul.”

It’s not about being anti-social. It’s about being safe.

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From the Festival or Park, Lock Your Rig to Explore in Peace

A few years ago at Bryn Mawr RV Resort in St. Augustine, Fla.,  to see Widespread Panic at the St. Aug Amphitheater, a gust of wind blew the RV door closed – locking the RV and F150 keys inside.

While we waited for AAA to come unlock the truck so we could fetch the spare RV key inside, we wondered how we could make such a freshman mistake. Hey, stuff happens. At least the roadside assistance magician got into the truck like a pro. But it could have been worse. At a remote music festival or in a rush to boogie home, roadside assistance could have taken hours – or not come at all. Then what would we have done…?

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