Rockin’ RVing & Music Festival Camping
If you’re an RV owner, you’ve no doubt spent time and treasure stocking your rig with all the accessories you hope will personalize your experience. But what if you’re traveling in someone else’s RV – and they don’t quite consider “must-have” camping or music festival goodies the same as you do? How can you ensure you’re prepared to make the experience your own, even if you’re riding shotgun?
Enter the “go bag.”
Continue reading “What’re You Packing? Stocking Your RV & Music Festival Go Bag”
For most RV campers, “boondocking” is a mythical form of camping. Disconnected, off the grid, separated from other campers – just you and your crew deep in the state or national park or out-of-the-way getaway where no power, water or sewer lines can reach. Just like the pioneers used to do. But glampers aren’t pioneering woodsfolk, unless the pioneers had their own memory foam bed, and shower, and fridge, and solid roof and door to keep out the elements and creatures. Modern boondockers want the creature comforts only power can deliver.
Enter solar power.
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It’s a magnificent Sunday afternoon on the banks of Florida’s Myakka River. I’m perched at a picnic table, cigar burning, Keller Williams streaming his stuff on the Bluetooth speaker. The sky is powder blue, a breeze is blowing. No place could be finer…
… to open my laptop and draft some words for some paying clients.
I’d wager some people’s opinions just went from “very cool” to “Dude, close that damn laptop and be present!”
Continue reading “From Hotels to RV Camping to Yurts, A New Spin on the “Working Vacation””
Robbie lost a life-long friend last week. We would have flown to New York for the funeral. But as with so many life-cycle events during COVID, only immediate family could attend. So there we were, towing our RV along Interstate 75, marveling at the Florida Everglades, and Zooming into Suri’s funeral.
As the landscape went from sawgrass to cypress swamp to pine uplands along “Alligator Alley,” we both shed tears and smiles as the rabbi recited traditional prayers and family members recalled Suri’s irrepressible spunk.
We were sad, but this was no despondent drive.
Continue reading “Paying Respects Remotely to a Friend Who’d Just Get It”
The coronavirus > COVID-9 earlier this year delivered a one-two punch to patrons of the RV camping and live music festival sectors. It also presented in stark contrast the tale of those two industries and how different they are when faced with a potentially existential threat. Almost immediately, both the live entertainment and the camping and recreational vehicle (RV) industries got hammered. Both were shut down cold. No concerts, no camping, no club shows, no festivals.
However, those similarities soon ended and traveled different roads. As the pandemic slogged on and science and consumers came to understand it better, what was murky soon cleared. Those denizens of both RVing and music festivals realized the sectors had nothing in common and the longer-term impact upon these two unique categories couldn’t be more different.
Live music still struggles – horribly. RVing is stronger than ever. How governments, consumers, and the respective industries responded reflect how little we knew then, and how much we think we know now.
Continue reading “Tale of Two Industries: Concerts & Camping Amid Coronavirus”