Realistic drive time, Reno --> Gerlach Monday night?

axl · Post by **axl** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 3:37 pm

I'm planning on leaving Reno ~10pm on Monday night. Any ideas on realistic drive time to Gerlach, given time of day and likely traffic?

Post by **AntiM** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 3:56 pm

A couple hours, more if there's a wreck in front of you. Don't speed whatever you do.

hsdavis · Post by **hsdavis** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 4:03 pm

Monday night the event will have started already. Your ride should be about 2 hours from Reno. Expect some slower moving vehicles with lots of shit tied to the roofs and some towing trailers that look like they wouldn't make it to the end of the street.
Oh, how I love the parade of the burner vehicles on the "Road to Shambala"!

phil · Post by **phil** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 5:46 pm

If you're driving at night PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE don't over drive your headlamps. There are cows in the road at night because the pavement is warmer than the dirt. If you drive fast and can't stop within the time you see a cow in your path, you will either hit the cow or swerve to avoid it and flip over.

You'll also overtake poor Burners whose tail lights you won't see for a variety of reasons and who are doing 45 or less with a trailer. Please drive so that you can stop within your lane when you need to do so.

It takes Louise and me two and a half hours to drive out the motel drive way in Reno until we pull into our camp space in BRC.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 5:50 pm

good points Phil......
going like Hell from Reno to BRC only saves some minutes, compared to driving safely, and, could become a disaster.
If it took an extra hour to get there, it'd sure be worth not hurting another living thing, just to save time........

phil · Post by **phil** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 5:53 pm

> Oh, how I love the parade of the burner vehicles on the "Road
> to Shambala"!

Me, too. I don't know it's real till I see a couch with rear view mirrors on it on someone's trailer. :->

> it'd sure be worth not hurting another living thing, just to save time

Especially if that living thing is Louise or me. I hate reading about Burners killed in traffic accidents on the way there or on the way home.

axl · Post by **axl** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:15 pm

phil wrote:If you're driving at night PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE don't over drive your headlamps.

No worries there, I'm all about safety on the drive. Coming from SF, so will be careful on the final stretch ...

phil wrote: It takes Louise and me two and a half hours to drive out the motel drive way in Reno until we pull into our camp space in BRC.

Phil, does that include a gas stop in Gerlach? Will it be smooth sailing through the greeter's line at 12:30a Tuesday morning?

Finally, will we get the benefit of a real greeting at that time (my fiance is a virgin).

Captain Goddammit · Post by **Captain Goddammit** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:18 pm

axl wrote: Finally, will we get the benefit of a real greeting at that time (my fiance is a virgin).

She won't be when the greeters get through with her!

phil · Post by **phil** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:24 pm

> Phil, does that include a gas stop in Gerlach? Will it be smooth sailing
> through the greeter's line at 12:30a Tuesday morning?

We stop in Empire and get gas, browse through the store for a snack and cold drink. I think the other estimates of two hours to Gerlach are accurate - my extra half hour includes Empire, being greeted, and getting to the place we'll call home for a week.

Elorrum · Post by **Elorrum** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:06 pm

I just flashed on my first vision of the red centipede of tailights climbing the hills as I was driving last year. Then I was the tail, and I just got in line.

Post by **AntiM** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:05 am

And Just run over the kamikaze bunnies. They're called Thumpers for a reason.

(That was ghastly, even for me.)

mikesieben · Post by **mikesieben** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:43 am

[quote="phil"]> Phil, does that include a gas stop in Gerlach? Will it be smooth sailing
> through the greeter's line at 12:30a Tuesday morning?

We stop in Empire and get gas, browse through the store for a snack and cold drink. I think the other estimates of two hours to Gerlach are accurate - my extra half hour includes Empire, being greeted, and getting to the place we'll call home for a week.[/quote]

Are the gas stations open late into the night there?

We're going to arrive around 1am tuesday morning and we would like a full tank when we park.