bm2004: everything but the prom

made it out here in six hours, including a stop in truckee for lunch & gas, and another gas topoff in gerlach.

coming in you could see huge sandstorms hundreds of feet high over the playa. they said that it was super dusty and windy this year, and they weren’t kidding around.

we had a little trouble finding camp elsewhere, because it wasn’t where it was supposed to be (which i guess you could have figured out by the name, huh?). wandering around, we did find shawn hailey in the sea otter camp, who was having a ball at his first burning man. after heading over to blyss abyss, we found carrie asleep in the air conditioned(!) dome, so she was able to lead us back to camp not too far away and set us up right.

we biked out that night to see the launching of the LEM, which was the sunrise moonbase installation by our elsewhere campmate david. which was fucking out there. way out there. it was nice to be out there in a little lunar module, listening to to the moon landing tapes, and looking at your own little desolate lunar landscape.

1. crocodile rocks! this bike does indeed kick ass. i successfully gave erin a ride, but it’s definitely trickier riding with two. and neigh impossible with someone who isn’t that great at riding bikes, because then one topples the other and we just both go a-tumblin’. i thought the croc had a flat as i had loaded it onto the trailer, so i was afraid that we were going to have to get it fixed when we got out here. i even picked up a patch kit and everything in preparation. but when we picked up the biks, the tire was fine. thanks you bike faeries!
2. i take back everything bad i said about the meal plan. dinner was sooooo yummy, including delicious pineapple coconut soup! mmmmm good.
3. i don’t care what anyone says. leaving a part where space cowboys and the unimog are playing for one that’s playing 80’s prom music is a bad idea.

Posted at September 2, 2004 8:18 AM