Day 147: Bonnarooooo!!

I built our homeLaura and I set up camp and wander around the festival grounds.  Bonnaroo is somewhat similar to Coachella.  People are camping out in the middle of nowhere for a festival, but this is country and it is much dirtier.  I feel like cattle wandering around.  It’s also 95 degrees and humid.

In our home

Our homemade fanny packs. Bringin’ em back!I am not complaining though.  This is a festival, time to have fun!  Laura and I do some arts and crafts and make our fanny packs, which are great for this type of event.

The people here are friendly, but I sense a certain sadness in them.  I am not sure what it is just yet.  Perhaps religion or maybe they feel stuck.  They don’t have the same carefree attitude as people at Coachella.  They don’t act as though anything is possible.

They got a little too much sunThis part of the US is a little foreign to me.  I know the east coast and I know the west coast but I don’t know much about what is in between.  I am excited to learn.

 Before bed, we sit and chat with our neighbors, Rob and Sarah, from Cleveland, OH.  A couple from NJ and Chris and Nate from Tennessee join us.  Everyone is 29 or 30.  They discuss this “stage” in their lives.

“I love where I am in my life right now.  I am ready for this stage,” Sarah says, referring to the big 3-0.  “In your twenties, you don’t know who you are yet.  You figure it out, and then you end up here,” she continues.

“I had so many new experiences in my twenties,” Chris says.  “I hate to think that I won’t have more and that it’s over.”

“I met all of my best friends in my twenties.  The friends I know will be lifelong,” Rob says.

As they reminisce about their twenties and describe this chapter of their life, I realize that I am in the midst of my self-discovery in my twenties.  I am figuring it out.  In the past three years I have found my friends that I know will be lifelong.

I am loving this chapter in my life but I am not fearful of the next one.  We are always changing.  It may slow down but it never stops.  See more pictures.