Soulshine Farm Music Fest: A Mountaintop Camping Feast for the Senses

By Barry Bluth

Soulshine is a song that has always meant something very special to me. I’m not really sure when it began, but it’s been one of those songs with meaning that struck a chord with me. Maybe it came at Lockn Festival, when my wife, Jen, and I stood about 10 feet from Warren Haynes as he serenaded us with Soulshine into Tupelo Honey back into Soulshine. That show was the most expensive ticket I’d ever laid my hands on, but it was her birthday, after all.  It was a memorable moment that could not have been sweeter.

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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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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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Concierge Medicine: Another Form of RV, Camping & Music Festival Travel ‘Insurance’

One glance at the fan base of any music and arts festival makes clear today’s festivals aren’t just for young turks. While they may not be Mick, Keef and the boys (as seen above, courtesy Getty Images), Baby Boomer roadtrippers and other middle-aged – ahem, Golden – travelers are hitting the highway and festival scene in record numbers.  One thing they realize that younger fans often deny: They aren’t invincible. So staying healthy on the road or at a music festival is important.

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