So you purchased your festival tickets for this upcoming season? So what? The real question is now, how do you plan on making that happen... That is, how do you plan on getting there? Believe me from experience, there is a right way and a wrong way to approach getting to a festival. Here is a list of a few tips and suggestions that will make the journey to the festival a breeze:
1. Use the buddy system - always drive with as many people as can physically fit into your vehicle. Not only does this save gas money, but it also provides many forms of entertainment as well as other drivers.
2. Obey all traffic laws - this is a big issue. If your one of those people who has a lead foot or likes to switch lanes with no signal, now is the time to really break those habits. Police are always patrolling the major highways and channels used to travel to festivals as easy targets to catch unlawful drivers. The police will take advantage of any slip up they can to pull over festival goers in an effort to make some easy cash and to mitigate some other external factors.
3. Use Waze - Waze is a directions and maps application just the same as google maps or any other application of the sorts. But one key element of Waze is that it allows its users to track the point of any police on any street at any time. The application stays up to the minute by having users like or dislike a post to determine whether or not the patrol car is still in the same location taking radar for instance.
4. Do not distinguish yourself - As exited as you may be about the festival culture you are about to embark on I strongly suggest that you do not label yourself as a festival goer while driving to the event. Distinguishing effects such as: Grassroots hats, festival pins, pajminas, hula hoops, gloves, or signs on windows such as "Headed to forest" will make you an easy target for police on the roads.
5. Leave at the optimal time- This is a very crucial point. Departure time can be a blessing but it can also be very discouraging if it is not correct. A good departure time will allow you as a festival goer to drive right into the event and get a good camping spot. A poor departure time will ensure that you wait in long lines to enter the festival, as well as a lesser quality camp spot.
Abiding by these tips will allow for safe, easy, and efficient travels to a festival.
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