Kamp Happiness: Creating a Home for Your Music Festival Camping Tribe

There’s a vibe that rolls through Kamp Happiness. Maybe it’s from the musicians playing beneath the pop-up tents, or the friends gathered close. Maybe it’s the crew sitting ‘round the campfire, drinks and guitars in hand.

Or maybe it’s just the welcome calling out from the darkness when we happened upon Kamp Happiness late the first night of Suwannee Roots Revival back in October.

“Come on in,” a woman’s voice beckoned. And on in we came.

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Wet Pets and Dirt-Free RV Roadtripping

Much of RVing and camping are a learned experience. Every outing brings a new event to be cataloged in memory and used in the future – or hopefully, forgotten to the ether. It’s especially true when traveling with pets (dogs, really). We wrote previously about taking dogs on the road and to music festivals. After a year of weekends spent on the road with our dog, Stella, we’ve found a few tools to reduce our shared anxiety, keep the pets safe and rig clean, and help improve our shared adventures.

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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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Peaking at FloydFest in the Blue Ridge Mountains

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Image courtesy Richmond Times-DispatchReview by Jam Band Purist

FloydFest is billed as “five days of Music, Magic, and Mountains” featuring adventure, vendors, food, brews and more than 100 artists. It helps that campers enjoy that same experience. After all, when camping atop a mountain – the Blue Ridge Mountains, no less – the experience peaks like the altitude itself.

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