Who?
You and your cool (not lame) friends are invited! Expect to run into other awesome people and their friends.
What?
Super Friend Bash is a group vacation between good friends (and their friends). Many of us live far away, but want to stay in each others’ lives and share new experiences. Each year, people pay a deposit and make a planning committee. The planning committee sets an itinerary for the trip. Then we go there, get swag (like this!), have fun, and decide next year’s trip!
When? Where?
Every year we pick a new time and new place. In 2024, we’re going to the Caribbean!
Contact us to suggest future locations.
Why?
Super Friend Bash originated from two desires: to have an annual tradition with close friends and to stay in touch with our friends as they went on with their lives. Let’s take each in turn:
“Worst. Tradition. Ever”
The last day of high school, three of us decided to commemorate passing into a new stage of life. We thought it would be nice symbolism to get together each year and walk across “the Gap,” a road through the mountain that connected our town to the school. We had a party afterward and toasted to our future.
The walk was awful. It would take four hours of the hottest New Mexican sun. But we kept doing it for seven years because we’re awesome. (Translation: stubborn.) In 2009, we decided a change was in order. We couldn’t keep coming back to the same place, having a terrible time with a dwindling set of friends. Instead, we started a new tradition to have a great time in new places with as many friends as we could…“Quit Making Something of Yourself, Dammit!”
The older we get, the more awesome people we meet. Sadly, these awesome people do things with their lives.. the jerks. One can call, but that’s not the same as visiting. And visits are expensive, especially when friends live in far away places.
Super Friend Bash was born as a solution to that problem. Instead of everyone spending money to separately visit their friends and family, why not just merge all of the trips? As long as we’re doing that, why not make it in an exciting new place?
I love your idea, can I steal it and not invite you?
Sure, no prob. Let me know the details and I’ll set up a page on it for your group. Or, you could start your own Renegade Bash if you like. I’d call such a Renegade Bash the No Carloses Trip, but you can make whatever terrible decisions you like.
Why did you not invite me, I thought we were friends!
Oof! Sorry. We forget to invite people every year. Sometimes it’s because we haven’t talked in a while, sometimes it’s because you’ve said no two or three times in a row, sometimes the trip gets too big and we stop advertising, sometimes we invited your enemy first and don’t want drama, but it’s usually because we hate you in particular. I really am sorry, this is a happy thing, but sometimes it causes sadness. If you want to keep being friends, I’ll sincerely apologize and welcome you next time! If you’re reading this, you’re invited. Please reach out if you want to come!