Saturday, February 7, 2015

Blythe Bluegrass Festival

We arrived here in Blythe, California on January 15 for a Bluegrass Festival which starts on the 16 for 3 nights.  We have never been to one of these venues in the past, so I thought it would be interesting.  Blythe borders the Colorado river which serves as the dividing line between California and Arizona.  It also separates time zones from pacific to mountain time zone.  As it turns out, I was not too excited with the music which seemed very repetitious to me and after two sets, I had enough. The average age at this venue was 65 so the music started 10AM and ended around 4PM.  Many campers would congregate around their campsites singing and playing their music into the wee hours.  There were about 12 different bands playing and most played two sets as they had two stages located at this fairground location which also serves as a race track.
We arrived around 4PM and noticed that our refrigerator was not working.  It turned out to be the Norcold recalled overtemp sensor was defective again for the second time.  Fortunately, there was a RV service center close by who actually had the recalled part in stock.  We ended up putting 20 pounds of block ice in the fridge until the service tech came out to bypass the defective unit.  They could not replace without permission of Norcold on Monday.  It was covered under warranty.
We camped in the overflow area which was a little farther from the venue than the other campers, but worked well for us as we had all kinds of room to ourselves.  The other campers were packed in like sardines.  I don't think we will be returning since it is not my cup of tea, but we had to do it once and the cost was very reasonable at $140 for 4 nights dry camping and 3 days of music for 2 people.





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