BottleRock ’23

We took the motorhome down to Napa this past weekend for the annual BottleRock music festival. Our seventh time going, and I’ve sworn each one is my last time. We keep going though, against my better judgement. We have a great time every year, but I am getting too old for three days of music! It takes a toll for sure. There are five different stages, and invariably the next group I want to see is at the one furthest from the one I’m at. Lot of walking involved. We got our full eleven hours in all three days too! Well Donette and I cut it about 20 minutes short the last night. We were just out of gas, or at least I was. Plus the second night we stayed a little too long and it took us an hour to get through the line for the bus back to camp, so I didn’t want to chance that happening again. The weather was very cooperative this year, so that was nice. Cloudy and around 70 degrees each day; Can’t beat that! If I was going to gripe about anything, and I will, there were just some crazy schedule overlaps this year. There are usually a few, which I suppose cannot be avoided, but there were WAY too many this year. Can’t be two places at the same time! I had to miss a few shows I really wanted to go see, and I wasn’t too happy about it. Hope they get that figured out a little better next year. **If I go next year.