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Go Big or Go Home – The (Not So) Lighter Side of Glamping

Go Big or Go Home! That was the battle cry heard on the convention floor at the Florida RV SuperShow in Tampa this past weekend. Gargantuan displays by the major luxury motorcoach manufacturers were in no short supply. Names like Newmar, Phaeton, Prevost and others were out in full force.

Starting at $250,000 but rapidly climbing into the million-dollar stratosphere, I always thought these were the coaches that escorted the rock stars to the music festivals we attend. Apparently, they’re for some (very elite) fans, too.

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4 Tips to Pick the Best Festival Camper

“MacDaddy” Prevost luxury coach

Walking the aisles of the Florida RV SuperShow this weekend, it was easy to be awestruck by the million-dollar motorcoaches. They shone beneath bright stage lights, all polished and new and ready for some buyer to break out the trust-fund checkbook. Yet from the most grand coaches to van-like “class B” Sprinters to respectable towables, there were accommodations for every taste, budget, and festival experience.

Matching the right unit to your lifestyle needs and festival expectations requires a bit of vision.

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One Album on the Road to a Music Festival Lifestyle

By Jeff Zbar

I was about 12 when my father and I walked into a record store in Coconut Grove, Florida. I walked out with my first album, the debut LP from some new act called Boston. A few weeks later, I bought my second, Elton John’s Greatest Hits.

By the time I was a senior in high school, I was playing bass in a rock band (it wasn’t considered “classic rock” back in ‘82) and I had two “Peaches” crates of vinyl. My passion for music was never as fervent as it was then.

Until now.

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When a Jam Band ‘Road Trip’ Includes the Mexican Riviera Maya

By Barry Bluth

Fans of Widespread Panic know all too well that we must beware of those who build monuments to themselves.  We’re a pretty bright lot if I must say.

We also know that we can’t always road trip “on the road,” though it is our preferred way of hitting up awesome music –  and what RoadTripMojo is all about.  After all, we were given Driving Song, and Up All Night.  But the truth of it is we have Airplane.  Though the song does exclaim, “DRIVE my liquor down, – to Mexico!”  it’s not always practical to drive. 

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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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