Took ours starting at 11 and 9 we've always had a blast, labelling the kids in case they get lost is a great idea, walking around with them and looking at stuff and talking about it is fun too, occasionally you may find something you don't want to explain but there always seems to be a "hey look at ...

we0ne wrote:Any tips for brining a 3 year old? I am hoping to stay in kids camp, but since it's my first time there, I'm not sure how to sign up. I have been emailing burningman.com for over 3 months now and zero reply.


Any suggestions are appreciated.

You want: http://www.burningkids.org/

sadly we wont be able to make it - settling down in NZ is taking way too much time and effort, and I've spent too long away from my job travelling the world on our way back home .... next year we'll come and I promise to bring art (whoever he is) However I have stayed at Rainbow Valley over new year...

Thanks - we'll try and make it - we might come a little late (Wed is our night to cook for our camp .... we'll either try and switch nights or show up with something to drink a little late). As I mentioned before we've changed our potluck to just "cocktails" on Thursday night - so show up and get sl...

- Mark/Yonderxx is camping at Kidsville with his four year old :) - Taniwha is having BBQ Thursday night at Saturn/3:00 - Messages will be left on a card in the Playa Info card catalog under K for "Kiws!" sounds right to me - our camp is called 'Moonbase', our BBQ has morphed back into it's older c...

How would it compare with last year's conditions? I think it wont be much different unless the wind really comes up. There is one difference - the surface at BRC really wasn't as 'wiped clean' this year as previous years - lots of old tire tracks - the playa really needs a few really good wet winte...

I was there over the past weekend - the BM site is pretty hard - there's a really soft patch maybe 5 miles north of it though

Taniwha wrote:somewhere vaguely near Saturn/9:00

oops that should really be something like Saturn/3:00 (a few blocks in any direction) I'll leave a note

Playa report - (and now for something completely different) - here's the report I just wrote for our camp: Just got back from 3 days on the playa. The conditions aren't much changed from last time we were there - the surface at the BM site is relatively hard, there's a still a very soft area north o...

Hi there everyone. The party at Taniwhas sounds like a plan, and the K place at the noticeboard for annnouncements. Actually I wasn't suggesting the noticeboard - it's always overflowing - I was thinking about the playa-info directory in cenjter camp (right by the notice board) - past years this ha...

People are starting to leave from the sounds of things - so let me make a suggestion (since I want invite all of you to a BBQ/party - just don't know when, or where just yet, but probably Thursday duskish) - lets create a card in the Playa Info card catalog under K for "Kiws!" (or did they replace a...

The nightly weather shows scattered thundershowers over northwestern Nevada these days, is the playa surface still able to harden up with showers/drying cycles hopefully? Last year I remember being stopped in traffic waiting for an accident to clear not far from BRC and walking out off the roadside...

We'll be at Moonbase as we always have (probably somewhere out around 3:00/jupiter if it's like previous years) ... we're of course already here. Normally I'd offer crash space to anyone who needs it - but we've already sold our house and packed most of our stuff - if anyone gets stuck or needs some...

Just trying to see if I need a second set oof tires...would suck to be bikeless in case of sand dunes or mud. Honestly you are going to be "bikeless" in playa-mud anyway ... just imagine biking through extra sticky porridge ... if it rains best is to go bare foot or not at all - just lay up somewhe...

d maybe a vehicle (chevy convertable of not) cruise route 66 after the burn to new orleans new york and then planet u s a heh - I guess we'll wave whenever we pass you - we're planning on driving to NY the southern way too - probably not rte 66 though have to vist relatives along the way - but New ...

(I'm probably the 'rocket person' Maya's original post came from - friends had reported that the playa hadn't been completely covered with water this year and I had suggested that that might mean that that could mean a fluffier surface - due to frost expansion while the surface was exposed but wet a...

I've camped out on the playa maybe 50 times now - there are scorpions in the hills around andflying insects of all kinds do get blown in - the only thing that has actually bitten me were horse flies that we had (only) one time - they would bite people though teeshirts leaving blood spots on their ba...

Hi Taniwha - good to see you on again. Will you be at Kidsville this year? We will. Lewis is now 4 and he will be very interactive with all the kids. Are you still thinking of moving back to NZ. YOu know this web area has got so big that I may have to create an official New Zealand one. Mark No - w...

Yonder Burn wrote:Whos going to Bm04?

Lisa, the kids and me ... sort of 3 1/2 kiwis .... we'll be there - the start of our year long summer ....

Check out this http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/archive/getfuzzy-20040603.html cartoon that came out of the blue and left me giggling insanely in the cafe yesterday as I read my morning paper .... my cat never does that On a more serious note - now that the NZ/Oz regional folder has evaporated ...

""I don't believe it's ever going to happen in Aug/Sept (maybe Oct). If it does rain remember rule #1 - stay put, don't try and drive, wait - the playa will almost certainly dry out the next day."" huh. well, i sure hope your belief is stronger than reality. remember '98? umm ... I was responding t...

In case of a substantial rain, tow rigs could not enter the playa, The vehicles there would remain until the playa dried. Vehicles could be removed by helicopter, as has happened. It is conceivable that in the event of onset of an early and heavy winter, thousands of vehicles could remain until Jun...

I too have been going to the playa for years (before BM ever went there in fact). The playa has changed over the years - the 'serpents' (those annoying dunes that will rip the bottom out of your truck if you hit them at 90mph) have got much worse down wind of the current BM site - it's got worse eve...

spectabillis wrote:Are you a member of NAR or Tripoli?

Both - Aeropac, the local Tripoli prefecture, http://www.aeropac.org has 3 launches on the playa each year - you are welcome to come and watch, or fly (except on EX days) though we'll hit you up for BLM fees (same place part of your burn ticket goes)

all the BM horror stories the Gerlach natives tell .... ? oh you can guess .... drug crazed orgies in the desert .... that sort of I think that the playa has always attracted the wierd and extreme ... the locals seem pretty used to it ... but it's a small town and they do like to talk. I have a pre...

Jeez are you're rockets that big, that you need clearance from the FAA? yes .... http://www.taniwha.com/br.jpg most are a lot smaller though - we regularly fly up through normal FAA controlled airspace and have occasionally approached 100k ft (20 miles). I my case I'm pretty much limited to what I ...

Last Real Burner wrote:Has anybody used one of those satellite phones?

yes - we use them on the playa to talk to the FAA when we fly rockets (not during the burn of course) - they are expensive but not incredibly so - dollars per minute I think, not tens of dollars (but I don't pay the bills so don't quote me)

the playa serpents might get you ....

While we are on the subject of the drive to Reno, it dosen't get you home any faster being the 87th SUV vs. being the 76th SUV on 447, so slow the fuck down and stop trying to pass 10 cars at a time on the wrong side of the road while pulling an overloaded trailer. It's dangerous, and stupid. Yes -...

It really depends - there's sort of 2 issues - getting off of the playa - basicly lots of people are trying to leave and there's a one lane road at the end of it - we've found that leaving really early that morning isn't a problem - later can be (others can speak to how much later). Secondly it's a ...