How to find your camp

LAME!!! I figure these shouldn't be too hard to get through since they're just average sized balloons. Maybe it will just depend on who checks your car out.

that would be so rad to see a bunch of people that all get flashing led balloons!

think of 10 thousand of these things in the sky flying around camp! would be pretty dang sweet to see that

there have been lots of times where (understandably) i had forgotten that i was actually walking back to my campsite and my feet just kind of brought me there... "oh yeah, thats what the original plan was".

yeah, I always find that by the second day, I just know where my camp is generally. Then I'll think - okay, so turn right at the painted bus with the crazies on top, then another right at the orange tent, then go three tents and you'll be there.

There are so many possible landmarks I've never felt the need to bring my own.

We aren't all lucky enough to have beepin' cars.

But like dcbee I generally find that I know how to get to my campsite by the second day. It's all about landmarks. Although I would like one year to actually have a flag. Just fer fun.

This is a great idea, in theory. 1st, how to inflate the ballons. You can buy a helium tank for around $40-$50 at a local party store, how do you get it past security? Say you get the tank in to Roo, now the helium in those balloons only last for a few hours. You will inflate them during the day and by night time they will be deflated, in turn not floating. Then someone finds out you have a helium tank and all your helium has been inhaled by your new friends/campmates before the first day is over.
I wanted to do this last year and when I asked the girl at the party store how long the balloon will stay afloat, she said like 6 hours or so, I decided otherwise. I bought a long piece of PVC, 10', and taped an old fishing pole to the top of it. I had the light-up balloons, which I tied to the fishing line and then pulled them up. The lights lasted all weekend. The extra balloons made it to the Flaming lips show and some made it to Jay-Z.

The best way to find you campsite is my landmarks. Every time you leave, find a landmark!

just learn where you are in relation to the cell tower and pod balloons

that would prob be one of my biggest tip (not only for campsites, but finding friends in crowds when you go the bathroom or a beer run)....use permanent landmarks. people/flags tend to move and it can be trippy at night trying to find your friends in a field of 70,000 people after the blue flag with a C on it moved.

The same thing happened to me! Suddenly I noticed the portos on the other side of the road were way too close. But I noticed a few other familiar tents and got myself situated.

Best camp marker I ever had was a super shiny twirly piece of cloth on a stick I got from the dollar store. I attached it to the top of my 5 foot PVC pole that has holes drilled through it that I zip tie to a post on my EZ up. That thing twisted in the wind and sparkled, even at night. I threw it out thinking I'd find another one at the $ store in the future and I've never seen another one :-(

But you can usually make use of other people's flags and markers to find your way. There's always something close enough by to help you figure it out.

Sugar, if we all do that, than we are back at square one.

As soon as you get camped on Thursday, go take a long walk around centeroo or the campground until you're nice and lost. Stop and make new friends, find Bearly Edible on shakedown, stuff like that. Wait until you really don't have any idea where you are to find your campsite. Then go find it.
The rest of the weekend, you'll be on autopilot.
Oh, and then when you catch yourself telling your friends "man, this way is much shorter than how I got back here on Thursday", you MUST give a stranger a high five. It's Bonnaroo law.

Mark a big x on your Roo site map where your camp is. Option 1- Give the taxi driver 5 plus a little tip and the map. Be genuinely interested in what they have to say and keep talking until you recognize your place. Say many thank you's.

Option 2 - Give the taxi driver 5 and your map. Get off in the general location of your camp. Start calling out for your favorite pet. Here.. sparky... sparky where have you gone. Some kind soul will walk with you until you recognize ' home'. Best to go with I've lost my little dog vs. the feline comments if you want to go home solo.

A bit tongue in cheek... but do keep the site map marked with your pod and an emergency 5 for 'That' night.

Although I was parked on the road last year, I will still use the camp names that are printed in the Bonnaroo map...last year I was in "Detective Billy Rosewood". Then just ask the volunteers if you need to know which direction that your camp name is in. they usually have a map