I live about 30 minutes from the festival, and Mrs. C's neurologist's office is across the street from one of the entrances. Plant City is not a city, and practically all of the entrances to the festival are two-lane semi-rural roads, so it would not take much to back up traffic from Valrico to Lakeland if every Palinista (and I mean that nicely) between Tampa and Orlando was trying to get to the festival yesterday. Since I was working after church yesterday, it wasn't an issue for me...
Was this is a published/known event? I just knew that Sunday was the last day, and I wanted to get to it before it was over and get my palette of strawberries to make my jam.