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4 Tips to Pick the Best Festival Camper

“MacDaddy” Prevost luxury coach

Walking the aisles of the Florida RV SuperShow this weekend, it was easy to be awestruck by the million-dollar motorcoaches. They shone beneath bright stage lights, all polished and new and ready for some buyer to break out the trust-fund checkbook. Yet from the most grand coaches to van-like “class B” Sprinters to respectable towables, there were accommodations for every taste, budget, and festival experience.

Matching the right unit to your lifestyle needs and festival expectations requires a bit of vision.

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One Album on the Road to a Music Festival Lifestyle

By Jeff Zbar

I was about 12 when my father and I walked into a record store in Coconut Grove, Florida. I walked out with my first album, the debut LP from some new act called Boston. A few weeks later, I bought my second, Elton John’s Greatest Hits.

By the time I was a senior in high school, I was playing bass in a rock band (it wasn’t considered “classic rock” back in ‘82) and I had two “Peaches” crates of vinyl. My passion for music was never as fervent as it was then.

Until now.

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Pets, Music Festivals, RVing, and the Open Road

Thinking of hitting the road or your next music festival with your pet? You’re not alone. Tripadvisor says more than half of pet owners travel with their pets and most stay only at pet-friendly properties. When the sign says, “No Pets Allowed,” one in five pet owners will smuggle them in anyway. A website called pet-friendly travel “complicated.”

Photo Courtesy Chewy.com
Courtesy Chewy.com

One property that’s generally not pet-friendly is the music festival. Lockn Festival warns that pets found in a vehicle or camping area will be turned away. Peach Festival welcomes only service dogs. And miniature horses (that’d be a hoot to see roaming the festival grounds). Peach says it vets (so to speak) all pets first, to avoid “large-scale animal service fraud.”

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Whoosh, laughs, and barks – A Travelblog from Fort Myers Beach…

By Zoe Zbar

You’re sitting on the beach of Fort Myers, nothing but a thin towel between your body and the powder-white sand. The only sounds hitting your eardrums are soft “whooshes” of the waves in front of you, muffled screeches of seagulls, laughs of children making sandcastles and chaos, and barks of dogs having the time of their lives.

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Checklists Help Remember Camping & Music Festival Supplies

We hit the road a few weeks ago for a two-night trip to the Red Coconut RV Resort in Fort Myers Beach. We weren’t five miles down the road when I realized I’d forgotten my iPad and cigars.

I didn’t double back. But the realization got me thinking about what else I might have forgotten that trip (nothing important, thankfully) and on past trips (various clothes and food stuffs, our Snap & Zap towing mirrors, even the anti-sway bar – total freshman fail).

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