I’m a million percent with Sham on this. ROAD TRIP!!! Burning Man really isn’t a good fly-in kind of thing. You are correct, tenting for 8 days really sucks. I mean really sucks. Especially in a hot desert (sometimes cold too) with blowing dirt that gets everywhere. If I wasn’t gonna bring my truck ...

I mean, it’s gotta be a pretty hard sell to get people to sign up for jobs so they can work for free during their vacation!! One day it’ll dawn on you. I’m going to hang for a week in Palm Springs. Got desert. Got bars. Got music. But also got pool... got non-corrosive environment... got plenty of a...

Ratty wrote:Now quit trying to talk other people out of it. Recruiting is hard enough.

OK.
goddammit.

It sounds like you understand me perfectly. If it weren’t overrun by the fly-in plug & play (or close to it) types I could see volunteering to work to build and operate BRC. I even used to do it. With the way it is now, hell no I’m not gonna work for these people for free. With the Org pushing r...

For all the volunteer staff, it most certainly is their vacation.
Except its spending that vacation working, for free.
None of those departments are “a couple hours” of work.

Hold that thought while I sell this Eskimo a bag of ice...

Volunteering on the Playa is like paying for a fabulous vacation way more than you can afford, then working instead of having that vacation. Lots of folks disagree with my virewpoint, but the BORG has shown decade after decade a resigned indifference to the people that make the magic happen. That’s...

Has anyone done that??? EVERYONE with any sense coming from the north does that. Reno is way south of Black Rock, why would you go down there??

Bob the Couch has left this planet, unfortunately.

Hell its annoying when someone reposts an entire long post just to reply to it even if it isn’t someone you’ve blocked.

Hanging out at the DMV, maybe with a sign, meeting MV owners and telling them where to find you is a fantastic idea. Have some cards... you an write your camp address on them when you give them out. You gotta do that as early in the week as possible, most MV owners are there getting their sticker AS...

I will be traveling I80 from Columbus Ohio into Nevada, hauling a 38 foot gooseneck trailer.  Let me just take a moment to applaud you for being the only new burner I've seen in quite a while who understands what the fuck Burning Man is!! Every other new person comes on here looking for a camp to j...

Super entertaining!!!

The Marriott Ocean Beach Club over on Maui will bring you drinks and fresh fruit right out to your lounge chair on the beach. They even have fire-spinner shows, just like Burning Man. When a really hard rain squall passes through the lanais can flood into the rooms but they will come by with this gi...

The Grand Hyatt resort on Kauai, Hawaii is really nice and provides goddamm everything you could need.
Expensive as hell but so is Burning Man.

It’s simple. If you need a place where someone else has provided you with bathing and eating and sleeping facilities, you DON’T want to go to Burning Man. How the hell does someone fly in from a zillion miles away and provide for themselves? Well... it was your idea to attend an event like this, see...

Unfortunately that stuff has always been an integral part of it. It wouldn’t be BRC without the big oontz.
Too many people found out about it.
Time to do something else.

Hey Ygmir, do you think my 4x4 dually Dodge would make it in with the camper on it?

My most popular YouTube video has 13,750 views. How many do I still need before I can put my own face on my swag?

Thanks Doc, I was about to look that up too!

None of it compares to the free ticket beggars of old.

Sham wrote: Nearly none of the information you write will be accurate, but unless your professor has attended, they will never know the difference.

That’s why you make the big bucks...

The more we facilitate people being able to attend and not take care of their own shit, the more of this we create.
Why the hell do people choose to fly to an event unable to carry in and out all their shit, to an event where that’s what you need to do?

Maybe go to a cobbler

“Manifesting”, and even “the playa will provide”.... it has begun.

Well it’s dirt goddammit. Add water and it becomes mud. That’s dirt.
Still only four letters and one syllable.

Well since there’s no sand on the dirt dry lake Black Rock Desert, you’ll be safe from sand entry regardless.

some seeing eye wrote:you are in a perfect situation to offer a ride to/from the event for other Seattle burners. Low income ticket program burners have access to a vehicle pass which can be helpful if the driver has not been able to get one.

Single best piece of advice! No vehicle pass, no entry.

Wait time to get in is part of the deal. It can even be 12 hours or more, if/when a whiteout or rain happens. That’s one of the many zillion advantages of bringing an RV/camper of some sort. You just don’t know how long you’ll be in the line and you might want to have your own bathroom! Also, after ...

Thank you for walking in knowing not a god damn thing about it and pretending you know how it should work.

You’ve got no idea what you’re taking about. And what’s “BMC” stand for? Or “BMR”? Why should everyone who joins a camp be guaranteed a ticket? Fuck them. Most of them, like yourself, aren’t real burners. They’re just people who don’t want to pull their own weight and look to some camp to provide in...

Yeah, that was the awesome BRC, when it totally sucked. No one was advertising for paying camp members to cater to, the porta-potties were shit mountains, most art cars served alcohol, misinformation was rampant, and your average person hadn't ever heard of it. There wasn’t as much art and it wasn’t...