Question about drive from NY-BRC

KMBlaze · Post by **KMBlaze** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:37 am

I'm looking for information on driving from NY to burning man.
How long does it take? Map quest tells me like 38 hours is that accurate?
Any tips would be welcome. I'm leaving from Rochester,NY and I would hate to get lost someplace in the mid west. Thanks in advance.

Post by **mdmf007** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 9:33 am

KM - thats what mapquest has - of course that time is based on you driving to gerlach, and not sight seeing on the way. Theres plenty of good stuff youll be diving right by.

KMBlaze · Post by **KMBlaze** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 9:37 am

Thanks for the help I'm just double checking my work

helitack · Post by **helitack** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 9:47 am

Just get yourself on Interstate 80, drive West until you reach Wadsworth Nevada, turn right and you are there...

phil · Post by **phil** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 10:37 am

Take a look at
http://www.cieux.com/maps.html
which has links to Web sites that do trip planning, not just the route. Rand McNally, AAA, Yahoo, and other sites which show lodging, restaurants, info SMSed to your cell phone for current updates on traffic and weather, and much more.

Save your trips and access them from the WiFi on your stops along the way.

It's the 21st Century!

Drive safe and have fun.

KMBlaze · Post by **KMBlaze** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 11:43 am

Thanks for the info phil!! I'm sure it will be handy!

BAS · Post by **BAS** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:37 pm

I think it took me about 48 hours driving from southeastern Wisconsin to the Black Rock Desert. That was including time outs for sleeping, potty breaks, food breaks, fueling breaks, and "Good God We Have to Get Out of the Car or Go Nuts!" breaks. (Also there was a "Where have they hidden the grocery stores in Salt Lake City?" break. Probably better planning could have avoided that one. Or, maybe, stopping in a different city. [I lobbied for Winnemucca, but can't say for certain if that would have been better.])

I *think* the trip took less time going back, but maybe I just slept more.

Now that I think about it, I don't have exact departure and arrival times. It was sometime on Saturday, early afternoon I believe, when we finally departed Racine, WI, and something like mid-morning Monday when I stopped off to pick up my ticket near the gate.

Hmmm. I should have taken notes....

B.

Post by **AntiM** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:42 pm

Groceries in Wendover or Winnemucca, not SLC, most assuredly.

Amplexus · Post by **Amplexus** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:11 pm

I drove from just outside of Philadelphia last year. I left on Friday night and made it by Monday morning. Once you get into Iowa, it really opens up and you can make some good time.

Not that everyone can do it, but I drove about 15 hours a day on Saturday and Sunday. It probably took about 36 hours or so total.

All in all, it was a very enjoyable experience and if you've never driven across the country before, I highly recommend it. There's nothing like starting your day in the midwest, driving through the Rocky Mountains, getting to see the Great Salt Lake and ending up in desert of Nevada all in one day. Really cool.

Oh, and I should warn you, it's going to take longer coming back. :D

BAS · Post by **BAS** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:44 pm

Groceries in Wendover or Winnemucca, not SLC, most assuredly.

That's what I thought, but I deferred to the ones who had been to BM before. If and when I go again, I am planing on stopping in Winnemucca. (If it turns out I am coming from the other direction, probably Reno. As it turns out, the non-virgins I was traveling with had always come from the west on their prior trips.... Well, SLC was an interesting part of the trip, at any rate. [My c.d. through the tape deck keep getting interference, which we decided must be God trying to communicate with us, amongst other things!])

Oh, and I should warn you, it's going to take longer coming back.

With better planning on our part, going back SHOULD have taken longer, but one of our people had to be to work on Thursday, so.... (I could have stood another day of recovery, plus seeing the sites would have been nice.)

B.

Post by **AntiM** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 6:11 pm

BAS wrote:
[My c.d. through the tape deck keep getting interference, which we decided must be God trying to communicate with us, amongst other things!]

God's the SLC airport traffic control tower?

BAS · Post by **BAS** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:00 pm

AntiM wrote:
BAS wrote:
[My c.d. through the tape deck keep getting interference, which we decided must be God trying to communicate with us, amongst other things!]
God's the SLC airport traffic control tower?

Well, all I will say is that every time we asked the weird static coming out of the speaker a question, it buzzed back a response to us. It even tried to sing along with Bono on one of U2's songs.... (God. the SLC airport traffic control tower is tone deaf, BTW. A tone deaf, insectoid God WOULD explain a LOT actually!)

B.

KMBlaze · Post by **KMBlaze** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 2:21 pm

Wow you guys are great thank you for all the helpful info!!

Post by **AntiM** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 3:43 pm

It always helps to know God's manifestations when transiting Utah.

May I suggestion you buy your booze in Wendover's Discount Liquors? Do not buy alcohol in Utah, you have to hunt up a state store, anything in the supermarkets is 3.2 or lower.

Barbie · Post by **Barbie** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 4:30 pm

and As we found out- Can't buy Liquor in one of those states I think it was Oregon on Sunday

BAS · Post by **BAS** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:01 pm

Yeah, we tried to find alcohol in SLC on a Sunday.

The only stuff available was the 3.2 and under stuff, which doesn't count! (Thought about looking in Winnemucca, but everyone was too anxious to get to the desert, so decided we already had enough with us.)

Utah definitely isn't Wisconsin or Illinois!

Wendover is in Nevada, I take it? (Went through a lot of states and towns on that trip!)

B.

Bin Noddin · Post by **Bin Noddin** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:44 pm

Wendover straddles the border, so its got all of those wonderful border town vices and contradictions. Notorious Wisconsin example: Hurley/Ironwood.

Post by **AntiM** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:56 pm

The booze is in nevada, and you can see it from the main drag through town. I think the supermarket is 24 hours and they have alcohol.

Amplexus · Post by **Amplexus** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:54 am

Is the selection good in Wendover?

We're under some pretty draconian liquor law in PA ourselves.

Post by **AntiM** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 9:03 am

Amplexus wrote:Is the selection good in Wendover?

We're under some pretty draconian liquor law in PA ourselves.

Not bad, better than Utah. But one of our group works in the state store, so we stock up all year during sales, plus we have access to the package store on base. Which is open Sundays, but you have to have that military ID to get to it. I already have half a dozen bottles of flavored rums for the Golden Cafe. I mean, booze doesn't go bad.