# music festivals ## Suggestions - Eat very very very healthy - Get amazing sleep before, during, and after - [[sobriety]] - seriously it works well - Very true for Portola 2024 (and other dancey stuff) - Its not just because the drugs risk difficulty, but that sobriety has many advantages (better dancing, sleep, health, presence) - If you are going to do anything, seriously do a microdose ## Bring list - ID !!! - A couple pieces of paper with your friends numbers on them (and address of where you are staying) - agree on a meeting place - very comfy [[shoes]] (the sucony in 2024 worked well for portola 2024) - [[hearing protection]] - [[green tea]] - ?Dex - Gum - electrolights - sunglasses (try transition lense [[glasses]]) - ?tiny Collapsable water bottle - Get a locker ## Do not bring list - rigid big water bottle - If you won't have a locker - ## Only go if.... - Advice I had written but wasn't true for portola 24 - there is somewhere soft to be. - if you can leave and come back. ## History - Portola (went in 2023, day one was great,2 was hard with illness and hangout) - CRSSD was super fun in 2022 ## Others - Friends go to... - bloomfestto - Electric Eclectic - [[Burning Man]] - Hillside -