Once you get to Coachella, you can’t exit and re-enter.
So if you’re only there for, say, 50 of the more than 100 bands, or if the music is secondary to the experience, you’re facing a lot of downtime over the three-day weekend.
The question is how to fill the time.
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Someone planned ahead and brought a deck of cards for something to do between bands. Unfortunately, the cards didn’t even make it to the venue. These had bitten the dust on the path between the parking lots and the Coachella festival by 2 p.m. Friday.
Some people had books (maybe the students missing mid-terms to be here today were getting in some study time?), some had handheld games.
I even saw iPods and their always-present white earbuds. (Question for readers: Would you bring an iPod to a music concert? It seems like a bit like taking a DVD player to a movie theater.)