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Toppingfrmbottom -> RE: Folsom Fringe (8/17/2010 3:36:12 AM)
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Cyis, yeah, sometimes cheaper events will disappoint you.
Frankly I wouldn't want to volunteer, even though it's cheaper, because when we go places like this I want my time to be 100 percent mine, to structure and schedule or not as I want, and we go to get away from every one and have us time, and volunteering takes some of that away.
It's only this one year that we really can't justify the costs, and I really did want to do something else this year, I am kind of tired of doing the same thing every year and wanted to branch out. The party I want to go to instead, will be a small one and it won't be grand in the sense of flashiness or what not, but I am confident the cozy atmosphere will be fun. IT's a camping and play party held at a private home, and you can go swiming in the nude, and they make breakfast and dinner an it's from what I hear like one big huge family gathering, like families back then that got together to do thanksgiving type stuff did, but only kink and we're not biologically related hehe.
I wasn't going to the parties in 01, I started going when I was 21, and that was 04 -05.
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ORIGINAL: Cyis75
We went the cheaper route a couple years back and went to another event a few months earlier and were disappointed. Of course we were comparing it to Folsom Fringe and when doing so the event we attended was not even in the same ball park. After having missed the past 5 years ('05-'09) and having attend 4 of the first 5 years ('01-'04) we're really looking forward to making the trip even though we're having to fly cross country to go there.
If the cost of the event is the hurdle to cross than I always recommend volunteering. I volunteered '01-'03 and then went just as a paid attendee in '04... As the event coordinator, MsTender, last year and this year is part of my family I've helped out handling the IT needs as well as helping with marketing. Trust me when I say volunteering is how I'm making the expenses of the trip workout. Our airfare alone is part of the biggest chunk and way more then our event registration fees.
Anyone who attended FF'01 (Playing in the Wild West) may have actually ran into me as I was driving the shuttle van between the host hotel and The Scenery, the local San Jose dungeon. It was my first event and I actually made quite a few contacts that year that I then got to meet up with again the following year and remembered me as the guy in the black Stetson cowboy hat driving the shuttle.
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