http://lowtechtimes.com/2008/10/19/shenandoah-valley-hot-air-balloon-and-wine-festival-report/ steam trains, bluegrass music, low-tech solutions, and hi-tech problems Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:12:57 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://lowtechtimes.com/2008/10/19/shenandoah-valley-hot-air-balloon-and-wine-festival-report/comment-page-1/#comment-1578 Jon Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:00:39 +0000 http://lowtechtimes.com/2008/10/19/shenandoah-valley-hot-air-balloon-and-wine-festival-report/#comment-1578 This one was in Leesburg last year. This one was in Leesburg last year.

]]> http://lowtechtimes.com/2008/10/19/shenandoah-valley-hot-air-balloon-and-wine-festival-report/comment-page-1/#comment-1576 S.P. Gass Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:45:34 +0000 http://lowtechtimes.com/2008/10/19/shenandoah-valley-hot-air-balloon-and-wine-festival-report/#comment-1576 Thanks for your comment. I'm guessing the VA Wine Festival is the one at Bull Run? This one wasn't that bad and there was live music, etc. Larry Keel played the day we went. Thanks for your comment. I’m guessing the VA Wine Festival is the one at Bull Run? This one wasn’t that bad and there was live music, etc. Larry Keel played the day we went.

]]> http://lowtechtimes.com/2008/10/19/shenandoah-valley-hot-air-balloon-and-wine-festival-report/comment-page-1/#comment-1575 Jon Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:02:43 +0000 http://lowtechtimes.com/2008/10/19/shenandoah-valley-hot-air-balloon-and-wine-festival-report/#comment-1575 Yeah, I went to the Virginia wine festival last year and will never go back. We took a bus from Arlington that left 30 minutes late and drove to Leesburg slowly. There was a 45 minute line to get in the "VIP Bus" entrance, because all the buses unloaded at the exact same time. We were standing in the blazing morning sun with no cover this entire time. We gave up on tastings because we had to wait 10-15 minutes for each taste. Eventually we just bought some bottles and sat in the ground in the sun (you had to have some kind of special pass to sit at a table underneath a tent). Not that there was any live music to watch or anything anyway. The bathroom and food lines were at least 15 minutes long. (portopotties can't cost that much to rent...why couldn't they have had enough?) So eventually we spend over two hours in a bus and two hours in lines to sit in the dirt for 3 hours...blah! Yeah, I went to the Virginia wine festival last year and will never go back. We took a bus from Arlington that left 30 minutes late and drove to Leesburg slowly. There was a 45 minute line to get in the “VIP Bus” entrance, because all the buses unloaded at the exact same time. We were standing in the blazing morning sun with no cover this entire time. We gave up on tastings because we had to wait 10-15 minutes for each taste. Eventually we just bought some bottles and sat in the ground in the sun (you had to have some kind of special pass to sit at a table underneath a tent). Not that there was any live music to watch or anything anyway. The bathroom and food lines were at least 15 minutes long. (portopotties can’t cost that much to rent…why couldn’t they have had enough?) So eventually we spend over two hours in a bus and two hours in lines to sit in the dirt for 3 hours…blah!

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