Thanks so much for the advice. We are probably better off a bit further from the action--and maybe we won't have a choice, because I'm not sure we can arrive before Monday night. I think we're going to have MUCH better bikes this year, so that will help a lot for the ride to and from the 'burbs. Las...

Thanks for the welcomes. Pleased to meet you and glad to be here. illy dilly, in 2009 we were around 8:00 and G -- we called it the RV 'burbs. Which was fine, because we were in an RV, and we didn't want to bother tent people. But after hours biking on the playa, it sure seemed like a long ride home...

Hello new friends: I'm Suze from the Philly area. "2009: Evolution" was my first Burn. My husband and I went by ourselves as virgins and were a little too reserved, let's say, to get to know people very well. (We met some super-cool people and had two incredible serendipitous encounters, but I mean ...