When temperatures soar into the triple digits at Stagecoach Music Festival, many country music fans long for the sun to go down for two reasons. A Stagecoach sunset provides much needed relief and brings on the cooler evening. Unlike the humidity found at Bonnaroo in Manchester, Tennessee, the desert gets cool at night. Of course [...]
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Stagecoach Music Festival and the Toyota 2014 4Runner Reveal
Thanks to Toyota, I was invited to Stagecoach Music Festival as a guest to experience the country music festival and the Toyota 2014 4Runner Reveal. I was flown to Los Angeles Airport and greeted with a 2013 version of the Toyota 4Runner and given the keys to drive it into the desert to Palm Springs. [...]
Haunted Windchimes prove Stagecoach is about the music
Saying Stagecoach Music Festival is all about the music sounds like the most obvious statement ever. The only pronouncement more clear is question one of a geometry problem: it is a given. For me the Haunted Windchimes proved the self evident. There are many reasons to come to a music festival. The main motivation can [...]
Stagecoach four wheeling with Toyota
Stagecoach Music Festival offers more than just great country music. Thanks to Toyota’s world of wonders tent, you can find a unique adventure with the Toyota drive center. They have a mock off road course set up, and you can test out your choice of Toyota four wheeled trucks. Sometimes on the way to [...]
A peaceful easy feeling with Toyota and Stagecoach
I am very excited to announce that thanks to Toyota I have been invited to next week’s Stagecoach Music Festival in Palm Springs, California. You can see the awesome list of musicians below. I for one am really excited to see the dude himself, Jeff Bridges. #spon: Content and/or other value provided by our partner, [...]
Telluride Valley Colorado camping
One of the best settings to see a musical festival is Telluride Valley Colorado. Each year they host the Telluride Blue Grass Festival in June. One year I did a double festival week and hit Bonnaroo the week before and then drove cross-country to Telluride to hit this festival the next weekend. What a week [...]
Another Bonnaroo Music Festival has come and gone
Another Bonnaroo Music Festival is winding down today and thousands of revelers will soon be making their way back to wherever it was they came from. After four days of roasting in the hot Tennessee sun, they will be returning to air-conditioning after a weekend of incredible music and great adventure. Only 360 some days [...]
Bonnaroo Music Festival kicks of next week
It is now less than a week before the annual Bonnaroo Music Festival kicks off in Manchester, Tennessee. 75,000-90,000 revelers descend upon this tiny hamlet south of Nashville in the scorching humid Tennessee heat. Read my Bonnaroo survival guide. Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Phish headline this year’s event. The lineup is enormous and [...]
Summer Camp Music Festival 2012 has arrived
Summer Camp Music Festival 2012 photo from Chillicothe, Illinois just north of Peoria. The 2013 version kicks off next weekend. Soon the woods at Three Sisters Park will be filled with tents as excited people await a weekend’s worth of fantastic music featuring Umphrey’s McGee and many others. Music festivals are an incredible adventure camping out with thousands [...]
Five tips on how not to get busted on the way to Summer Camp Music Festival
Last year, I was the guest of Summer Camp Music Festival and had a wonderful three days of good times camping in the woods, dodging thunder storms, and seeing great live music. Music festivals are a wonderful time and a great adventure. In a nearby river town along the Illinois River, I stopped for groceries [...]
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