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 …
Festivals
Tomorrowland 2017
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 …
Electric Forest Weekend 2 & Playthrough
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 2017 Weekend One
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 …
What The Fest: A Love Letter
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 …
Spring Awakening Music Festival 2017
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 …
Buku Music & Art Project 2017
Going to a festival in New Orleans had been on our bucket list for a few years. When a lineup including The Floozies, Rezz, Cashmere Cat, Grizmatik, Tycho and Big Wild dropped, we had to go to Buku. First off – the costs: Tickets were a little pricey for a two day festival – we …
North Coast Festival 2016
TACOS. TACOS. TACOS! and so much DANCING. Our decision to go to North Coast was extremely spur of the moment, mostly because we were heading into a deep depression after coming home to regular life after Euroganza 2016 – Our epic Tomorrowland/European Vacation. Fortunately, we were able to snag an amazing Airbnb at short notice, …
How to Tomorrowland
“There are fireworks! HEART fireworks?! Just random fireworks? Every night?? And that dragon is on fire AND breathing cold water vapor…wtf is this place?” We were in no way prepared for the unbridled insanity of Tomorrowland. Yes, it’s huge. Every single day we danced and walked about 14 miles, so a little over a half …