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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RV Retailer – Rolling Up the RV Business

RVers, roadtrippers and music festival campers know that thrill of owning an RV, travel trailer or sprinter begins before it’s driven off the lot and proven with every encounter they may have with the RV service department. If only RV dealers would step up that effort. One is trying to.

Enter Jon Ferrando. As a child, young Ferrando grew up RVing the UP of Michigan with his family. So he knows a bit about the spirit that drives the RV camping enthusiast. But the auto sector veteran also knows enough about customer service to have sensed an opportunity in what some would decry as the RV industry’s weakest link.

It helps that the exec cut his teeth at the nation’s largest car dealership – one which places high value on customer service and growth through acquisition.

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North Beach Music Festival Brings Jams to Miami Beach – Again

For jam band fans, brothers Gideon and Noah Plotnicki are good folk to follow. Their pedigree boasts a collection of stellar sets from Brooklyn to New Orleans. Drawing on success booking late-night shows at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and serving as talent buyer Brooklyn Comes Alive, in 2021 they brought the inaugural year North Beach Music Festival to a 1960s-era, Art Deco-styled amphitheater steps from the Atlantic, ensconced in palms – and for two nights of jam and funk last December – lit with a laser ceiling and awash in jams. Year two promises to amp it up.
In this recent Sit Down With the Producers, we caught up with the brothers to discuss their history, their philosophy and their plans for North Beach Year II  on December 9-11, 2022 in Miami Beach (listen to the discussion here).

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RV Camping: The Marvels of the Outdoor Kitchen

Imagine you’re an up-before-dawn camper hosting people who prefer to sleep in, but who’ll no doubt awaken hungry for breakfast. Try perking coffee, frying bacon or doing meal prep with an RV full of sleeping bears best left unpoked.

Enter the outdoor kitchen, the ideal place to cook, serve and entertain friends and family. It’s an idyllic place, especially sipping that first cup of coffee of your own.

Why do people rave about their RV’s outdoor kitchen? Because it’s a camping marvel.

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Music: Soothing Sounds for the Open Road

“Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.”

DZ is a veteran traveler who likes to fill his ear holes with tunes. Not just any tunes. But tunes he likes. So whether he’s flying abroad (pre-Covid) or roadtripping across the U.S., he breaks out a couple of second-hand iPod Minis, each loaded with a thousand or so tunes – from RHCP to Beck (and Jeff Beck) to Beethoven. He’ll plug in the pod in and queue up his music.

Which got us thinking: How important is music to the traveler?

Passengers in airports sport their Beats like athletes making the pre-game locker room walk. Wooks and heads heading to a music festival call up the playlist someone’s no doubt curated of the acts they’re gonna see. Heck, the Merry Pranksters took a whole entourage on the road with them on their trips. 

Frankly, it just makes living easier on the ears and soul.

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