This post covers three days of our vacation because not a whole lot happened. Most of our time was spent hanging around our campsite and meeting new (and awesome) people! We woke up early on Tuesday and got ready to head to Manchester, TN to meet our wonderful Bonnaroovians! We had a really yummy breakfast at Waffle House, which was a must since we were in the South. Then we headed to the Manchester high school for volunteer check-in. We didn’t seem to have to wait in line all that long. It’s amazing how smooth of a process it is considering they are checking-in THOUSANDS of volunteers! I think the coolest part about check-in was that our supervisor from two years ago remembered us. It definitely made me feel special. Once we were all checked-in we got to head to the farm (the venue that Bonnaroo is held at every year.. it’s literally a 700-acre farm!), set up our tent, and got to chilling. The first order of business was, of course, cracking a nice cold beer after all of our hard work in the heat. Next we wandered around meeting people and seeing what the grounds looked like this year. We came back in time for dinner because they were nice enough to have a giant BBQ for all of the volunteers. It was so delicious!
For the next couple of days we just kind of bummed around getting to know our surroundings and everything. We had to make an emergency run to Walmart, but it ended up being a really good trip. The walk was pretty refreshing and killed some time that we otherwise would have had to fill by sitting around, there was air conditioning inside Walmart that did a really good job of making us feel better from the extreme heat, and some awesome PBR rep gave us a free deck of cards and cooler while we were waiting for the shuttle back to the campgrounds! After that trip we played lots of cards to pass the down-time. 🙂
Next I wanna talk about what it’s like to go to a crazy awesome music festival like this and also have to deal with your health. It’s not super easy, nor is it fun. I can’t say that I was perfect at doing my medicine during the festival, but I certainly gave it a valiant effort and had a good plan set up. It was just fun, timing, and plain exhaustion that got the best of me sometimes. Anyways, the easiest place for me to do my treatments while we were camping on the farm was at the health tent. Luckily, our camping section was the one that had the main health tent at it, meaning that there was plenty of room for me to take my breathing treatment there when I needed to do it and it was close-by. The most difficult part about doing your treatments at a place like this is getting over having to it in front of people. I personally just want to do it and get on my way. However, you have to deal with people asking what’s wrong and all that jazz. It’s not that I mind people asking, it’s just that I don’t wanna make a big deal about it or feel like some animal in a zoo being gawked at. It’s really just something that I’m working on getting past, and these road trips and adventures are very quickly curing that insecurity!
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