If KCRF is your home faire, what other faires do you make it to?

[kcdcchef]

The Kansas City Renaissance Festival is my home faire, since I am from there. I presently live 1,000 miles away, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. But still every fall I make it to Canterbury for one fun filled weekend! Generally Columbus Day weekend, but some years, I pick another random weekend to make it out. This year might be the weekend before, boo.

Anyways, since we live in PGH, we also make it to the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire about 3 hours from us in Lancaster, PA. There is a cloer one, Pittsburgh Renaissance Faire, all of 30 minutes away, but PARF is better. This year I intend to go ahead and hit all 3, and MAYBE Ohio. Everyone else?? Any other faires?

[Butch]

We go to the one in Columbia and the one in St Louis.  Went to the one in Joplin last year.  Went to one of the ones in Omaha a couple of years ago (the one at Scary Acres).  Went to MN last year and am going again on Labor Day this year.  Made it out to RenDezVous in CO this year!

Have not yet been to the faires in Des Moines nor in Amana Colonies.

[Tamtaro]

I call Columbia, Mo home, but KCRF is my "home" festival.  I made it to a couple years of Jeff City before they closed it (boo!) and recently have attended Columbia's & St. Louis'.  These are all so HOT that my heart remains loyal to KCRF's Fall weather faire.  My Colorado summer camping vacation coincided with CORF this year - awesome fun & beautiful trees & views!  I hit a really "hot" weekend, but with such low humidity "hot" means something else out there!  I burn easily (lots o' sunscreen), but didn't get sweaty and gross.  My sister lives in NW Chicago, so we'll be hitting the Bristol RF when I visit her the last weekend of August.  I want to visit a festival that is nice and cool 60-70^o, so I can wear a hat & cloak and not die.

[Tamtaro]

Wow, kcdcchef!  I just google-mapped PARF.  You get a prize for travelling the furthest to get to Canterbury!

[Butch]

Didn't list my home.  I live in the KC suburb of Lees Summit, MO.

[kcdcchef]

Wow, kcdcchef!  I just google-mapped PARF.  You get a prize for travelling the furthest to get to Canterbury!

yeah I am loyal to my beloved KCRF! every October I make a trip just to come to Canterbury. some years I have hit MDFR and VARF, even NYRF too. these recent years it has been PARF and KCRF.

[Tamtaro]

Didn't list my home.  I live in the KC suburb of Lees Summit, MO.

That's perfect!  Enough of a drive to make it feel like you are off on an adventure, but close enough that you don't need a hotel or to waste yourself getting back.  Makes the season pass more of a bargain too!
How was the MN faire?  How's the weather up there?  It runs the same time as KC, but the web page looks very similar to ours...are they run by the same organization?   Enquiring minds want to know!

[kcdcchef]

That's perfect!  Enough of a drive to make it feel like you are off on an adventure, but close enough that you don't need a hotel or to waste yourself getting back.  Makes the season pass more of a bargain too!
How was the MN faire?  How's the weather up there?  It runs the same time as KC, but the web page looks very similar to ours...are they run by the same organization?   Enquiring minds want to know!

yup, same company runs KCRF and MNRF, and a couple of others too. They take a lot of slack from everyone about how they run them and how they have cut back, but I will be very vocal in saying I think they do a heck of a great job. That land has gotten more and more expensive every year, people make more and more ( marginally, mind you ) and the festival is still grand!

[Butch]

It's well worth the drive!  (about 6 hrs from here).  MANY RF'ers up there to escort you around (including my "born 500 years too late" brother, Gauwyn!)  It is laid out differently, but has permanent structures.  The entertainment is great; they could use more shade.  Their mead is AWESOME!  The beer wenches at the Foaming Stein are AWESOME!

Check it out sometime.  South side of the Twin Cities!

OOH!  If you're a season pass holder, you can call the KCRF office and cheese a free ticket to the MN RF!

[Delireus]

I was born and raised outside of Houston Texas for 18 years, and now I go to Kansas State in Manhattan, so technically TRF is my 'home' faire (and always will be, I love that place) If I am lucky, I get to fly home to see my family for a week during the Thanskgiving break, and while there I can catch one or two weekends of TRF. It's about a 12 hour drive if I drive though.

Then, it's 2 hours to KCRF, but my friends and I always drive up the friday before to stay at one of their houses and from there, it's only about a 10 minute drive to the faire.

My sophmore year, a year ago, my boyfriend and I drove to the Oklahoma renfest, which was about 6 hours. I loved it and want to go again but he said it was too far (maybe because someone didn't grow up driving 5 hours each way from Houston to Dallas four times a year to see family. 6 hours is nothin for a faire to me!)

I have also been to Scarby once, while I was home for the summer in Houston. That was about 4 to 5 hours, I can't remember, but it was a blast!

Then, this past year, my friends and I went to Wichita for their spring faire, a 2 hour drive each way, but we did it all in one day. Also a very fun faire, though maybe a tad small for a 4 hour drive in one day.

So, the farthest I go is down to Texas, about a 2 hour plane ride or a 12 hour car drive

[Tamtaro]

OOH!  If you're a season pass holder, you can call the KCRF office and cheese a free ticket to the MN RF!

Excellent use of the word CHEESE!! And great tip!  I'm going to try it out!

[Aniroaldawen]

I live in Raytown, a suburb of KC, about 25-30 minutes from faire. I've also attended the Oklahoma Renaissance Faire and the St. Louis Renaissance Faire (twice each).

[Tamtaro]

I was born and raised outside of Houston Texas for 18 years, and now I go to Kansas State in Manhattan, so technically TRF is my 'home' faire (and always will be, I love that place) If I am lucky, I get to fly home to see my family for a week during the Thanskgiving break, and while there I can catch one or two weekends of TRF. It's about a 12 hour drive if I drive though.
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So, the farthest I go is down to Texas, about a 2 hour plane ride or a 12 hour car drive

You are a long way from home!  I hear Manhattan, KS is a groovy town though.  TRF is a late fall faire - is the weather nice?  If I had money, I would be more than just tempted to travel everywhere for renaissance festivals!  In the meantime, I'll have to just live vicariously through everyone else's adventures!
BTW - I like your new avatar photo!

[Delireus]

I am indeed far! I'm flying home (back to Kansas) this friday in fact, and school starts on the 22nd.

The thing about Texas is that it's hot all the time. However, we're not the hottest part of the nation for once currently! It rarely snows, I had only seen snow twice before going to Kansas and it flurried for about 10 minutes, but you can be sure the entire south part of the state shut down for it! So, even though the first weekend of TRF is Oct. 8th, it is still like 90 degrees there. Opening weekends are half price tickets, because no one comes because its so hot. I can't tell you how excited I was to experience my first cold Halloween here in Kansas!

However, by the time I'm down there for Thanksgiving weekend, the weather varies a lot. I've been going for about 10 years and last time I was there was the first time I was actually cold! The mornings can be nice and brisk, but the humidity is always high, so by midday, it's a tad warm. But for the most, it tends to be nice-ish. Sometimes it's boiling, sometimes (or only once I can remember) it was actually cold.

And thanks, I just changed my picture! I also just joined the steampunk forum called Brass Gogles and used a larger version of the image as my avatar there, so I figured I'd sync myself up