Got my car, gonna get packed up (waiting for my bike) and will head out later today. Should be there late morning/early afternoon tomorrow.

Can't wait to see you all!!!

Hey there,
Virgin coming solo with a monkey hut, tent, and car. As long as it's not gonna be too far from the jots I'd like to join too. Will add myself to the spreadsheet when I get home.

Has anyone volunteered to make a sign? If not I'll throw something together.

Just a heads up that Grocery Outlet marked down a lot of summer stuff including solar led lights.
Got a 50 led strand for 5 bucks and there is (depending on your store) lots of other lights too.

GF stuff is too expensive ($4-7 a loaf, $5 for four bagels) to experiment. I work at Grocery Outlet and our bread is brought in from Franz. Every so often they bring us a selection of 2 or 3 different GF breads for under $5 a loaf. Don't know what part of the country you're in but if you have one n...

Guess I didn't read as many pages as I thought.
Thanks for the link.... see you all next week!!!

So.... I wanna try my best to not be shy and come. Honestly, you all will be the closest thing I have to knowing anyone at the burn.
Seeing as I've probably only read pages 1-5 and 25-30 of this thread I don't know what I should (or shouldn't) bring. Is there a list or is it not quite that formal?

http://www.burningman.com/preparation/travel_info/cedarville.html#.Ugh-opJ1SSp About halfway down the page..... John = O Ranch Water 420 County Road 27 – 530-279-2372 – map Open 6am-8pm. Just 3 miles south of Cedarville, turn right on County Road 27, and on your right is a large ranch where you can ...

Dr. Pyro wrote:In 2010, somebody emptied (we assume) their RV's black water (read: piss and shit) on the playa right about where BDV met up with Gigsville.

How do you even clean that up??

I think i'm gonna give the t-posts a try. i'll report back when I actually get it set up and try it.

Do t-posts work well on the playa?

Thanks for the write up! I use a hammock instead of a bed and tentatively my plan is to do the same on the playa, between that wikihow and your experience i'm hoping it'll be fairly straightforward. When you said EMT may not of been the best choice, was that just because of it being in a yard? Also,...

That'll look great all dusty! Decent capacity. :D Ya... good thing you'll have this picture of it all nice and shiny. Take another pic after leaving BMan... it'll be good for a laugh! :lol: Actually it looks WAYYYYYY nicer in that picture than in person. Besides, I think playa will be a fine color ...

Yesterday I finally found the 2nd most important item (behind a ticket) I needed.
A new car! Well..... new to me.

You use a hammock as a bed in ordinary life?? . . . Do go on. In the past 3 years I have gone through a brand new bed, about 3 different air mattresses, and a recliner. Couldn't find anything that didn't hurt my back (recliner wasn't so bad) and got fed up. I had been joking about just getting a ha...

I have read a couple of the other posts about hammocks but they didn't answer my question. I want to sleep in a hammock and am wondering if a monkeyhut is going to be enough of a shelter by itself? I'm not so concerned about the dust or anything like that, its just that I use a hammock as my bed and...

Awesome to hear that your opening your doors again this year. Can't wait to stop by on my way down!

There are also motorcycle touring blogs that have information on blue highways. Didn't even think of that, thanks for the lead. Redding is best seen in the rear view mirror. IMO. I've been through that area a couple times and I wholeheartedly agree. It just so happens that the In-N-Out there is the...

I plan on doing the Eugene-K Falls-Alturas route on the way down but being so close I figured I would get my In-N-Out fix on the way back.

Was wondering if anyone has any first hand experience with 299 between where 139 meets up with it and Redding? I'm coming from western Washington and would like to go through Redding and straight up I-5 on the way back. Didn't really find anything searching and the wiki page is not much help either....

Clicked the link at 12:00:20 and just now at 5:04 pacific time I have my ticket. Lots of reloading and lots of waiting but it finally happened. Have the conformation number from the page but don't have the email yet.

Simon of the Playa wrote:if you dont get tickets, do this instead.

To participate, you must have a bachelor's degree in math, engineering, biological or physical sciences or computer science.

Just to taste test food??? The things you need a college degree for now days.........

I know the BMOrg was out to get me. They hated me from the start. I pretty sure those security cameras in my house are new, and that my phone is tapped. Larry Harvey has access to the Patriot Act and he's not afraid to use it!

Wait a minute.... you say none of that rings a bell?
My mistake.

Finally got my you suck letter. I also got it in duplicate, talk about salt in the wound.
At least I can have some closure now.

Let us all bow our heads in a moment of silence for those that didn't win.
And a big congrats! to those who did.

Has anyone actually gotten the rejection email yet? I've yet to hear a single thing either way but figure since trillo said the drawing's over it must be on it's way. It's definitely going to be a bummer of a day but hopefully those of us that didn't win can count on the STEP to do it's job. [youtub...

BBadger wrote:Awesome new way of trolling ePlayans: send PMs to them so they see a notice email from "burningman.com"!

Actually.... that happened to me earlier today. I about crapped my pants when I saw the email. Almost crapped them again after seeing it was a PM.

@remi- jeez.... if i gotta

@Savannah- I know but a lot can happen in 3 minutes!

@Zeke- Thanks for the clarification.

trilobyte wrote:Timelapse-icus Maximus

How I haven't seen that one yet is beyond me. Almost looks unreal with all those dots scurrying around.

Oh and..... still no word on a ticket for me yet.
Is this the kinda thing that we will get an email either way or just if we won?

AntiM wrote:Bamboo!

Really? Does bamboo work just as well? That sounds a lot cooler than PVC.

How bout' we just put all the tickets in a giant Hungry Hungry Hippos kinda thing and we can all scramble for them. Yeah, because nothing says more about our community than letting bullies win. Jeez, I wasn't trying to imply we should fight over them. I just enjoyed the mental image of 40,000+ peop...