Day 1: Indio, CA
3 days of peace, love, and WAKEY WAKEY!!!
WAKEY WAKEY EGGS AND BAKEY!!!
7:00 AM. 7. AM. Seven-effing-AM, after getting exactly 3 1/2 hours of sleep the night before because of Dude Who Wanted To Blast His Crappy House Music 3 Feet From My Head, we were awakened by some idiot who seemed hell bent on turning the entire campground against her.
WAKEY WAKEY EGGS AND BAKEY!!!
As it turns out, House Dude didn’t want to wake up, so this horrible woman chose to repeat her five word refrain repeatedly until he did so. And guess what? He still didn’t wake up, but everybody else sure as hell did.
WAKEY WAKEY EGGS AND BAKEY!!!
I’ll never forget those five words for as long as I live. And why, WHY did she want to wake up so early? Because she wanted to take a shower before the lines got too long. The showers were 200 feet from our campsites. Hardly logical, but as I learned that weekend, little is logical at Coachella. You just roll with it.
WAKEY WAKEY EGGS AND BAKEY!!!
Outside of Idiot Girl and House Dude, everybody around us seemed to be pretty cool people. See the California Bear Flag in the background of the picture? Yeah, those guys were all A’s fans from the Bay Area. The car next to them were a group from Santa Cruz. The group in the foreground took up four campsites and set up a little shanty town for themselves. I like to think they came up with their own constitution and legal system just for the weekend, and sent people to neighboring campsites in search of trade partners. They probably printed their own money too. One thing’s for sure though – EVERYTHING was legal in that shanty town.
Everyone just kind of operated on their own schedules for the most part, and kept to themselves until the final night, when we all came together for one last massive party in the campground. Once inside the gates though, all bets were off.
WAKEY WAKEY EGGS AND BAKEY!!!
Oh right, Idiot Girl. Perhaps not surprisingly, after her 7:00 AM outburst on Day 1 of the festival, she was never heard from again.
Posted on January 17, 2012, in Bygone Eras and tagged 2012, california, camry, car, Coachella, Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival, desert, Indio, travel. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a Comment.
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