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Puddles of Fun: When Storms Hit the Music Festival

  1. When the Skies Open Up: Embracing the Mud and Mayhem at a Rainy Music Festival

You can’t say we weren’t warned. A week out from the Suwanee Spring Reunion music festival, the weather app warned that it would be wet. Days out, it warned there’d be up to a 90% chance of rain.

Here we are, socked in with that spot-on forecast drenching the campsite. But the tent is dry, and the day’s music hasn’t started yet. We have a poncho – damned if we’re gonna get locked in the tent.

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Buckle Up for Absurdity: RoadtripMojo’s Terms of Service (Un)Limited

RoadtripMojo has been around for far too long with no terms of service to guide our relationship with fellow roadtrippers – and cover our a$$e$ in case some pansy gets offended. So, lazy meme thieves that we are, we asked Google’s Bard chatbot to conjure some rules of the road. Our prompt: “Write 250 words on an unreasonable terms of service for roadtripmojo website.” About 10 seconds later, it gave us the following semi-legalese, indefensible gobbledygook – plus the image of car-meets-cow, for added import. (I’m kind of expecting a fat bill for this from an attorney somewhere)

Image of car honking at a cow“Welcome, thrill-seekers and wanderlust warriors, to RoadtripMojo, the engine that fuels your spontaneous adventures! By clicking “I Accept” below, you’re not just powering up your RV, hitching up your travel trailer, or even renting a van – you’re signing a hilarious pact with the open road (and some potentially questionable legal clauses). So, grab a granola bar, crank up the tunes, and prepare for the wildest ride of your digital life:

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FloydFest Horizon 2024 Brings Magic – and Music – Back to the Mountain

 

RoadtripMojo spent some time chatting with #FloydFest COO and producer Sam Calhoun about FloydFest Horizon 2024, its new home, new venues and stages, the different campgrounds, and the acts they’ve signed so far. Below is the interview – with lotsa insights to help prepare you old timers and newcomers alike for the new digs, new stages, new acts – and friends old and new.

Listen to the conversation here. Then, visit RoadtripMojo on Facebook for your chance to win one 4-Day GA pass AND one Canopy Camping Tent Tag for FloydFest 24~Horizon. Thanks – as always – Sam for all you do for live music. We truly appreciate you and your team and the magic you serve up! (Selection to be made by Monday, December 4, 2023. Details here

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Roadtrip to the Cosmos: 9 Tips for Camping Stargazing

When you’re roadtripping in search of stargazing, especially to certified “International Dark Sky Places,” the cosmos can come alive with a display of universe of eye candy. Below are a few tips to consider when choosing a place to set up your telescope, or lay back with your binoculars – or bare eyes – and take in the celestial offering.

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Fear and Loathing at Hulaween: A Gonzo Odyssey

The wilderness of reality stretched wide before me, but I had no intention of crossing it to the other side. I was on a journey, an unholy pilgrimage to the heart of chaos, the Hulaween Music Festival at the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park. A cacophonous celebration of the bizarre, the absurd, the mystical – all set to a spectacular set list four days long. It was a place where the laws of physics, reason, and sobriety held no sway. This was Gonzo territory.

As I rolled into the campground, the air was as thick with anticipation as the Spanish moss draped through the live oaks. The scent of something illicit hung in that same air. It was a circus on hallucenigens, and I was the ringleader of my own delirious dreamscape. What ride would this trip take us on?

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