Awesome! You are the best. We used this a bunch of times.

Hi Doc
Nice to meet you at PBB. You said you'd do the hotel thing this year and you've come through. Thanks for doing this.
Drop by Black Hole Literary Society and say hello. 4 and B.
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Just reading about a 5000 year old pub kept its food cold. Gee what a great idea for the Playa! A zeer is constructed by placing a clay pot within a larger clay pot with wet sand in between the pots and a wet cloth on top.[11] The device cools as the water evaporates, allowing refrigeration in hot, ...

Omg! The price has gone up sooo much. Used to be $35 a night the week before gates open for us WAP pass holders.
Thanks for real BDV!

Been using a Pentax K5 for 7 burns with no trouble. Just don't change lenses. There is always dust. Pentax is legendary for this. Obviously there are more up to date cameras and will bring one but will bring the Pentax in 2022. Just can't kill that beast. https://www.flickr.com/photos/eddaytona/albu...

Yup. Credit cards at Ice and Coffee. The future is catching up with them. Still nothing about Gars radio.

Yup. Credit cards at Ice and Coffee. The future is catching up with them. Still nothing about Gars radio.

Couldn't find any info about Gate Info radio in the Survival Guide. Is it active this year?

Also, saw that coffee is accepting Visa and Master cards this year. True? How about ice?

Not soon enough.

Seems like you have less time to do stuff? We all do. It's not the bike, its FOMO. Actually, E-bikes are really great but you have to have a way to charge them. Otherwise, start building up your endurance at the change to Daylight Savings Time. Walk, bike, get out and park your car. Do a little for ...

Just booked again for this year on Aug. 24th. Thanks!
BTW: Did find RV parking to be problematic on site (too many darned Burners there already) but parked the next street over.

Check this fellow out. I have no idea what streams of Christianity there are but maybe you can connect with him?

If you are traveling back to LA on 395, here is a suggestion. When you get to Mojave, the Shell station/Subway store has a do-it-yourself car wash with really high ceiling next door. I stop and use it to rinse off the RV. Why not wash off the engine (carefully)? I'm sure there are plenty of reasons ...

What the others said but here are a few of our rules and tips. 1. No pooping in the RV 2. Water and grey water are complimentary concerns. Grey water tank capacity will be your biggest problem. We turn on the water pump until it pressurizes the system and find we can use that dose for many of our ne...

Didn't see it mentioned above. Don't forget if you are driving in you will also need a vehicle pass as well as tickets. Otherwise you'll be in for a nasty surprise. Just more money. Whew.

Top Ass Hats (in order) 1. The guy at the Infected Mushroom concert that got up on the riser straight back from the stage and pushed all the folks (including me and my wife) aside so they almost fell. Then he whipped out a drum and a set of cymbals and started drumming (badly) over the sound of the ...

Always water! (piss clear) Kafiya, dust mask, goggles, Cliff bar, chap stick, sun screen, gifts, head lamp, cup. Never leave camp without a pack.

To answer the question: There is a Cost-to-much-co less than two miles from the airport. There are a bunch of Wailmarts nearby too. The Wailmarts set up Burning Man sections and are very handy. Since they also allow our RV's to hang out in the parking lot, you might even find a ride. And!, they are ...

The same folks who do "Playa Compass", a great app that lets you backtrack to a location like where you parked your bike. GPS looks good and really simple. I was playing with it today and seems ok. Only bug I've found on my LG phone is it shuts down or something when I go to another app. Thanks for ...

Never had a lawn chair go but I've had a dust devil blow through camp and bent the heavy duty legs of a large shade structure. Guy wires kept it from going airborne. Last year was particularly windy. We had a heavy 15" dj speaker on our flatbed. The wind blew it from the front to the back and onto t...

Got my fireballs about 10 days ago. One in the pack with tix and the other separately in a VP package. My mail dude knows to look for for it each year and hand delivered to our apartment door. Love the USPS!
BTW, Anyone notice they get smaller and smaller each year?

Black Hole Literary Society has been placed this year at 2:15 and E.
AKA: Exile on E street.

For us it's all about gray and black water limiting. We have plenty of fresh in the tank and a bunch in 2.5 gallon jugs. But since we are on Playa for 10 days our tanks can almost overflow by the end. A moop disaster if that happens. One can not count on a well timed pumper truck to save your leakin...

Thanks to Trillo and Kara at BMHQ ,my VP issue was resolved very quickly. Sometimes BMorg kind of feels opaque to us dustlings but there are really good folks there to help us out. Hat tip... and smiley face. Don't have to smash through the gate after all!

WTF? Got my tickets in about 8 minutes but no vehicle passes available??????? What happened???

Well, I'm going and goin' drive in with or without.

Old Thread but... We RV it up and down 395 from LALA. Seriously beautiful scenery. On the way back to the default world we always spend our first night in the Carson Valley Inn in Mindan, about 20 miles south of Carson City. Just long enough that you're not pushing it while tired and dusty especiall...

2015: My wife was in charge of "software". You know, like blankets and pillows and sheets. Being the nice guy that I am, I apparently wanted to help her pack our vehicle and took them down to load. Then I forgot I did that in the rush of everything else. I also forgot where I packed that stuff. When...

Dear Oliv

The answers to your questions are all contained in the survival guide. Read it and take it seriously.

Yippee! Tickets and VP came today. No email warning. Had to sign for them at my front door with my awesome mail-person who remembered my angst from last year when they got rerouted to the post office for a couple of days. Beautiful design and graphics.

Hey, coincidentally I was just playing around with this over the last few days. I'm tired of futzing with EL wire on my bike so I bought this LED ribbon with controller pack on A-zon (SUPERNIGHT (TM) 16.4FT SMD 5050 Waterproof 300LEDs RGB Flexible LED Strip Light Lamp + 44Key IR Remote Controller). ...