Rockin’ RVing & Music Festival Camping
Summer is here with the first heat wave having rolled through the East. The 2018 Music Festival Season is in full swing. With some heavy hitting fests on deck, like Bonnaroo, Peach Fest, and Lollapalooza, and many others throughout the summer and into fall, it’s important to beat the heat and not let scorching temps ruin a good time. Here’s a few tips to get you started.
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Deana and Brian have pitched tents in Florida campgrounds and music festivals. They know there’s nothing like unzipping the “door” come sun-up to the great outdoors, whether in Florida’s Wekiwa Springs State Park or the Spirit of Suwannee Music Park for the Wanee Festival. But when they bought tickets to the Runaway Country music festival this year in Kissimmee, Florida, they decided to change their lodging to one with a real door – and a host of other amenities – and they rented a camper.
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We’ve written about how to make your music festival campsite rock. But whether you’re stringing lights or hammocks, hanging tarps or tapestries, or scrounging around in the dark around your tent, RV or travel trailer, a couple of key tools can make all the difference in creating the right atmosphere to keep your RoadtripMojo going! Read on to learn more…
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Making your music festival campsite rock takes a bit of thought and ingenuity. With some creativity, and an adventurous spirit, you can create the environment to capture just the right fest vibe. Our setup, while basically the same at most fests (save for Hulaween!, which we go all out with inflatables, tapestries, and lights), is a continually evolving beast that grows with us as we fest.
As sites are often vastly different, we learn to adapt to different site layouts and features. We typically spend a few hours setting up for a fest; so much can be said for an early arrival. Forest camping is by far our fav; being stacked like a sardine in a parking lot our least. No matter where you end up laying your head at a fest, you can do much to create the right atmosphere to keep your #RoadtripMojo going!
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You know you’ve created a comfortable campsite when you find a stranger asleep in one of your hammocks at dawn. At least, we guess that’s a good sign. Whether chairs around the campfire, an outdoor carpet for a guest to lay out his bedroll, or hammocks hung between trees (regardless of whether stragglers catch Zs), camping culture calls for a welcoming encampment. What pieces are required to create a perfect campsite? We have a few suggestions below. We’ll dig into some product reviews down the road.
People outfit their home patios with chairs, tables, and tunes. No reason the campsite can’t own a similar spirit and a vibe all its own.
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