2004...burning man virgin coming from new york city

[iamtonynyc]

hey everyone, never been, but have to do it.

33yo laid back easy going male looking to make the trek from nyc & looking for people to share costs of rental car/minivan.

[Chai Guy]

Hey Tony,


You might want to try hooking up with these guys, they rent shipping containers and send them out from NYC to the playa. My advice is connect with them, buy a plane ticket (I'm guessing that's going to be cheaper than renting a van and paying for the gas all the way out there and back, even if you split the costs with another person). Once you get to Reno you can hook up with someone on the ride share board and get ride to the playa (I've given several rides from the airport to the playa). Driving cross country isn't much fun anymore. Just one walmart,Mcdonalds,gas station after another.

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Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 9:48 pm
Post subject: Container From NYC- BRC- NYC Answers

Hi There BRC Folk!
Glad that people are talking about shippin' here on the 'ol Eplaya! I've been running containers to the playa from NYC and back for 3 years.
Last year we had so many people we had to run two containers.
The containers go by truck and rail out to CA, and then are driven out to the playa from there.
The cost is amazingly cheap considering that you just put your well boxed stuff on a truck in NYC, and it gets to the playa and sits on the container for you to pick up...then the container is there for you to put your well packed box back on when you are ready to leave the playa and it meets you back in NYC.

I decided to do the container this way as a gift in 2001 after watching numerous people try and drive trucks that they had rented- and coordinate people and their stuff...and arrive at the playa late, with damages to the rented truck, and the drivers were sick and tired. This didn't look like fun for those that made it possible, nor did they usually do it again...I felt that transferance service was very important for artists on the East Coast so that they could plan bigger and bigger stuff for Burning Man from NYC and for theme camps and villages.

Reorient, The Mechanical Horses, Rev. Billy and his choir, Slow Dance Camp, Costume Cult, Jonney on The Spot, Asylum Village, And Image Node were some of the many participants in the NYC container this past year...hundreds of people were able to bring their art projects to the playa.
If you want more info just visit www.sealspace.org

Its a great way to give back to your community!

Transferance Coordinatrix
Lady Merv
NYC
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Ladymerv



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Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 10:24 pm
Post subject: Art Ark more answers
Just to clearify:
Art Ark from NYC- BRC- NYC does not charge people by weight, it goes by size...

we ask participants not to ship water or food on the container since it cooks in there and having a water jug open up on someone's art might not be what the artist wanted...and stinky cheese has a way of making everything in the container smell bad.(dried foods are welcome). We also ask participants in the container not to ship anything that is hazardus( a few years ago someone shipped a car battery that exploded all over their stuff and a few others...nothing like finding your sleeping bag has battery acid all over it)...the containers cook in the sun.

We ask everyone to pay before hand, since its the combined payments that make the container possible. Last year it was $3.50 a cubic foot round trip, this made it possible to rent two 48 foot containers for the trip out- a week or so on the playa and the trip back...by truck and rail.
TIP: Do NOT send your container to RENO train yard- if you are using the rail method send it to CA- and have it trucked from there...the reno guys seem to like to take it easy- and that could mean that your container arrives on friday in RENO and sits in the yard till monday or tuesday.. believe me, it happend to us the first year and we learned our lesson.

The container is run by an outside company which ships huge amounts of containers around the USA daily, we are one( or two) of thousands of containers they are moving- and orgainzing the rail part of the trip is impossible for a layman. (believe me, I tried).

If you are going to do a container from your neck of the woods, I would reccomend getting started immediatly( right after New Years). It takes A LOT of behind the sceens work to make this possible...

much love,
Transferance Coordinatrix
Lady Merv

[_tears_]

You shouldnt have too much trouble Chai is 100% right, that looks like the way to go. I personally live in Cali and will be driving to the playa alone this year and will probably pick up some people at the air port There are ALWAYS people to lend a helping hand, Good Luck

--Tears--

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