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There are a few options for getting to the town of Boom, where the festival happens. 1) Global Journey! You can get really fancy and hop on a Global Journey flight (way outside my price range) or do something more simple like taking the Global Journey train or bus. I have done both and loved …
For the last two years my January’s have been a mad focus on one specific task: secure tickets for Tomorrowland. “How hard can it be?” You may ask. It’s actually an extremely complicated process with tickets selling out completely in about 3 seconds every year. That’s 180,000 tickets, whoosh, gone. Step 1: Have a major …
This is me at my happiest. Dirtiest, and happiest. For almost three weeks I got to work in the gardens and greenhouses at the Oregon Eclipse Festival in the high desert. Watering and making land art, knowing that all of it would exist for just this moment and then it would return to its natural …
Amicorum Spectaculum! Coming back to Boom for a second year I was so ready! My sweet friend Marilyn came along this year and what a lovely and completely different experience being there with a female friend instead of my kid. We took a shuttle bus from Eindhoven instead of the train from Amsterdam, and I …
One of the ways to make the festival adventures happen on a tight budget is to work in exchange for a ticket. Pretty much every festival has this option, and at Electric Forest a #frugalfestivalista has quite a few options depending on how much time one has to spend. Working for WET (Work Exchange Team) …
Electric Forest is beautiful. This is an undeniable fact. Electric Forest is also a huge undertaking with mindblowing amounts of trash and leaves an enormous footprint. Looking back over the past 6 days of living at the festival as a worker, I’m grateful that my first EF experience got to be equal parts awe and …
Driving down the Columbia Gorge on the way to Dufur, Oregon, you get the sense that something magical is about to happen. Maybe it’s the towering cliffs and wide open river, or the stillness heading into the forest, but either way the feeling of joyful expectation is real. From the moment we rolled into the …
I got to spend 3 Days dancing to my favorite music with my Oregon Festie Bestie and my oldest/dearest friend in my favorite city! If I had to relive one day of my life over and over again a la Groundhogs day, it would be Saturday June 10, 2017. I’m pretty sure my heart exploded …
This festival season we’re spending the bulk of our time at festivals in places that get super chilly at night. The squad wants to look great, but also not die of hypothermia under a disco ball in Dufur, Oregon. Reversible festival hoods with a longer cowl neckline seem like the solution to the our …
Because we’re madly scrambling to get all our flights, tickets to festivals, camping gear and regular life bills paid, all our festival outfits are going to be HEAVILY DIY. I wish had $300 to spend on the hat of my dreams, but, I don’t. Our DIY started with a pretty cheap captain’s hat off of …