Every Day at Faire

[amy]

We call the TNRF our home fair but have to cross the border from AL to get there.  We go every weekend with about 1 1/2 hour drive each way... but for the long Memorial Day weekend we get a nearby motel and stay all 3 days.  We go about 7 hours to spend Labor Day weekend at OHRF too.

[arbcoind]

PRF is a 35 minute drive.  It runs 6 weekends plus Labor Day.  I attend each Saturday and a Sunday or two.  Gotta split my time with the pool!

Gina

[Captain Cornelius Howard Duckman]

Well, I have four 'Home' faires, but each of them is about an hour, hour and  ahlf away.

[Athena]

GLMF is about an hour and fifteen minute drive from where I live.

[Capt Robertsgrave Thighbiter]

So far, our longest voyage was 12 hours , from Long Island NY to the Eastport Pirate Festival in Eastport Maine.  That's a haul an a half.  However,  later this year we will be extending our range from Long Island NY to Tampa Fla, for the John Levique Pirate Days
( but they are flyin' us in for that - no way I am driving 24-28 hours).

[Baroness de Vale]

It takes about 1 hr. 20 min. to get to GLMF. We generally go only on Saturdays because the kids don't handle the drive very well for 2 days in a row. Hopefully in a couple of years we'll be going both days.

[Dinobabe]

Wow!  Some impressive drives.
I just wish I lived as close as some of you.  Sounds really cool.
Thanks for sharing everyone!

[Merlin]

Scarby.... about 40 minutes away from driveway to FOF parking. It's 8 weeks long....17 days and I go about 10-14 days each season. If they had camping...I would camp every weekend that I planned on attending Saturday and Sunday.

[Hatter]

Home fair is MNRF.  My lady and I attend every weekend every day.  We just love it!  We live about 2hrs and 20min away.

[Tammy]

I live in SC...no faires here. I drive for 2 hours to get to CRF in NC, and I go every weekend I can afford to. GARF in Ga. is about 2 1/2 hours...and I hate going near Atlanta traffic, so I don't do the driving. I've only been to GARF once (last year was the first time), so I'm hoping to go more this year.

[Randal]

I work both TRF and the new Sherwood Forest Faire. Both are about 90 miles from my house, or about 60 miles from my day job. Normally I'll leave work Friday afternoon, camp on site Friday and Saturday nights, and drive home Sunday night.

[DonaCatalina]

We attend Scarborough every weekend at least one of the days. It is about an hour drive if we leave by 7:00am. If we leave later the traffic makes it about 1 1/2 hours.
We are usually on site about 8:00am so His Excellency can dress in the parking lot.

[BLAKDUKE]

I really do not have a home faire.  When my wife and I performed at TNRF, we would bring our camper up 2 weeks prior and set it up, then leave here on Friday nite after work do the faire on Sat/Sun, leave Sunday after faire and drive home.  About 6 hours each way.  Then we got smart and also got more vacation time so we would take Friday and Monday off.  That worked out much better.  When we did the keys faire we drove down on thursday and drove back on monday.  Garf is only about 1 1/2 hours away but we only go on opening weekend.   For the weekend for the last couple of years we have taken our camper to the campground in Fairburn and stayed the weekend.  It's a little more expensive but so much more relaxing, besides there is a fantastic steak and prime rib joint right at the campgrounds entrance that we go to on Saturday night.  For the rest of the time, it is to bloody hot for us.  For the GCRF Pensacola/Mobile versions we drive down on Friday and camp, and return on Monday.  The rest of the faires that we have been to are usually on vacation so they don't really count. 

[Dayna]

Like Blakduke, I drive quite a ways.  I live in Minneapolis MN but work the Bristol faire in Kenosha WI, 394 miles each way.  I work Friday from home so I can leave right before the afternoon rush, stay over Fri - Sun and drive back Monday.  I used to get a hotel, but this year I have an apartment I'm sharing with one of FoF co-directors (there are 2 co-directors, she's one of them).

I also do Janesville and Stronghold, both of which require driving to Chicago to stay with friends.  Sioux Falls faire is about 4 hours away, I hotel since it's only one weekend.

[Seleyna Eirian]

My two home faires (yeah, I'm claiming two) are KHRF and ORF. KHRF is about an hour and a half to get there, we're going the first weekend and camping the whole weekend, then I'm sure we'll be making trips down there at least the first three weekends, even if it's only for one day at a time. It's all worth it. Last year I worked at ORF and the drive was about the same distance, and I was there even on days that I didn't have to work (my day job isn't all that forgiving about taking weekends off. I could barely get my Sundays off). All in all, I think that the drive is worth it. Also worked at GLMF (sort of) last season. I drove up there four Sundays in a row, and that was a four hour drive each way. It was completely worth it though.