POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
Sleeping Arrangements
The indoor and outdoor lodging locations
are always at the same facility in every stopping town.
Indoor Lodging
Indoor lodging typically consists of setting up an air
mattress and sleeping bag on the floor of a gym or large
multipurpose type room. Generally about 75% of our participants
choose to sleep indoors.
Outdoor Camping
Outdoor camping typically consists of pitching a
tent on a large field or the lawn of the
main lodging site grounds.
At some main lodging sites outside security lights come
on at sunset and remain on all night so you should set your
tent up away from these lights if possible as well.
You
will not be able to pitch your tent directly near the main
access door at
most main lodging sites because we need to
leave access open for support
vehicles to unload and load event related supplies and gear.
If you pitch your tent where it is
not allowed
we reserve the right to have to move it later.
No campfires or open flames will be allowed.
A great solution to eliminate the extra work of pitching
and taking down your tent would be to consider signing up
for the personal tent set up or tent rental or services offered
by Professional Events Service when available. Click
Here for more information about these services.
Pros
and Cons of Each Sleeping Arrangement
There are some very significant pros and cons of
each type of sleeping arrangement. The only way
to completely avoid all of these problems is to get a room
at our supported hotel.
Sleeping Indoors
One of the main benefits of sleeping indoors is that you
can avoid the extra work from pitching a tent at the end
of an already long, challenging day and scrambling to get
it taken down, packed up, and on our
vehicles before
they leave in the morning. You also won't have to
worry about inclement weather if you sleep indoors, and
you can enjoy the air conditioning in the main lodging
sites where it is available. If you sleep indoors every
night, you won't even have to bring a tent at all!
The major cons of sleeping indoors are that you may
have very little privacy since all the other
participants staying indoors will also be staying in the
same room with you. You will need to change your clothes
in the locker room or bathrooms or do so discreetly in your
sleeping bag and it is absolutely impossible to simply be
alone.
It may also be difficult to get a great night's
sleep if you do not use earplugs since other participants
will snore and move around and get up and go to the bathroom
during the night. If you want to go to bed earlier than 9:00
pm you night not be able to because the lights for the indoor
sleeping area will be turned off at that time. In the morning,
once the first person gets up for the day pretty
much everyone
else
gets
up too
when
his alarm clock goes off and he starts moving around getting
his stuff together for that day's ride.
Sleeping
Outdoors
The benefits and drawbacks to sleeping outdoors
are just about opposite to those sleeping indoors. You
will be have the extra work of pitching your tent after
you arrive in town and taking it down in the morning and
you might get wet if it rains, but you will also have infinitely
more privacy than you would sleeping indoors and be able
to go to bed earlier than lights out at 9:00 pm and as a
result might get a better night's
sleep.
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