Tweak of the Week: Retool RV Dinette to Host Music Festival, Camping Friends

A functional disconnect often arises when you take delivery of a RV or travel trailer you intend to take to music festivals or large campground gatherings. As the name suggests, the dinette was designed for dining. Yet, when we’re hosting friends at a music festival or campsite, we spend more time hanging out than dining in. So, how can you maximize “dinette” functionality?

We’ve seen a bunch of Facebook posts and pix on great ideas. They’ve included everything from one on Fun RV Stuff on pulling the seating and installing a couch or recliners, or cutting a new wood plank to serve as a narrow platform between the benches.

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Long-Time Music Festival Campers Win Key Largo Camping Giveaway

RoadtripMojo is stoked to announce that veteran winery and music festival RVer Jean Marie Kennedy has won the RoadtripMojo Key Largo Winter Giveaway. All she did was Like our page and get her name entered. She then won a stay with the family RV at the Moonlight Inn Key Largo. Read on to learn a little more about Jean Marie, husband Joe, and their travels down the roadtrip highway. (Those who like RoadtripMojo’s Facebook page  between now and the end of Wanee on April 22 will be entered to win the next Key Largo Spring Giveaway)

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OkeeFest: A Florida Music Festival Feast for the Senses

The main stage at Okeechobee Music Festival (image courtesy Adam McCullough.com)

We make no secret at RoadtripMojo that our first love is jam bands. We’ll travel almost a thousand miles – and fly even farther – to see bands that turn a three-minute song into a 15-minute improvisational frenzy. But when an event like Okeechobee Music Festival springs up each year 90 miles from our South Florida homes, a two-hour drive is a no-brainer. Truth be told, OMF is heavy into electronic dance music, or EDM. But with some “real” bands on hand, like Turquaz, Lettuce, Big Gigantic, Slightly Stoopid, Trombone Shorty, and a few others, we figured it was worth a day trip. Man, was it ever…

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RVing and Music Festivals: Making Bicycles Welcome

Curt Manufacturing clamp-on bike rack (image courtesy eTrailer)

When we bought our Ford F150 to tow our travel trailer to music festivals and campgrounds, we thought we had all the capacity we needed. With a four-door crew cab spacious enough for five and a large bed with a hard tonneau cover, we envisioned loading it with lots of stuff and room to spare. Except, we came to find, for our bikes. With the bed packed with other camping supplies and our trailer manufacturer fairly adamant about never attaching anything to the rear bumper or installing a hitch to the stern, how would we shuttle our bikes to our fav fests? We found that a number of manufacturers have it all figured out. Now, which solution was best…?

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Sugaree: A Psychedelic Spin on the Music Festival RV

Psychedelic rides are nothing new to the Grateful Dead or music festival scene. Whether VW microbuses or the original Further itself, bright rides are as common as trippy tunes. But Sugaree, a converted GMC school bus, puts a vivid new spin on the music festival RV / tour bus. Dad David McQuaid calls it their “schoolie conversion into our psychedelic hippie bus.”

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