After my all-too-short taste of Savannah, I was on my way to another, similar Old South city: Charleston, South Carolina. The two whole days I spent there were the best part of this whole week.

After that unforgettable music festival, Suwannee Hulaween, I couldn't just go straight home and go back to work. For this reason I planned out a trip that would take up the whole week after the festival. Originally I wanted to spend that week in Germany, but because I had to get my passport renewed and waited too long to do it, I came up with an alternate trip that would also involve historic cities and train travel. After some research I decided on Savannah and Charleston, and stuck a night in Charlotte in there at the end.

Suwannee Hulaween, which happens every year on the weekend closest to Halloween, is one festival I'd wanted to check out for quite a few years. The Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park & Campground, located in the Florida Panhandle on the Suwannee River, near the town of Live Oak, hosts a number of festivals every year like Brainquility and Suwannee Roots Revival, and I think Hulaween is the biggest one. For years I'd seen friends' Instagram pictures from not only Hulaween but various other festivals at this venue, and I knew I'd have to go there for one of them.

Middlelands only happened once, on May 5-7, 2017. It was staged by Insomniac, the huge enterprise that also organizes EDC, Beyond Wonderland, Escape Halloween, and so many other huge events that draw enormous crowds every year. It was conceived as a huge EDM fest with a medieval/Renaissance theme, and thus was staged on a Renaissance Faire ground. Middlelands was supposed to be another huge annual festival like those others, but thus far has only been a one-off in 2017.