ride it’s been… I’ll give it more depth in my blog.. but.. here’s

what happened..About 4 weeks ago I decided that I had red-lined and

would not be going to the burn this year.. I kept working on the

timecycle lights, but gave up on the idea of going to BRC  It was a

huge relief to be not stressing about i .. for awhile at least. . =
 The

vehicle left vt last Saturday, made it 500 miles then the trailer broke

down because of the weight. They dumped about a ton of stuff then

hobbled back to VT .. we ended up renting a ryder truck , repacked and

got them off on sunday. They got to the playa on wed AM….
   

Meanwhile.. on Wed my baby bro, billy and I started talking about 

going to the burn just for 2 days.. at 3pm on Thursday we decided.. why

the hell not.. He bought us airplane tix.. I spent all night on the

phone with some folks in Amsterdam who still had 2 will call tix.. At 6

am Friday  I was on a plane headed to Reno.   We met up there and got

to the playa at about 5:30.. The crew was just finishing the reassembly

of the timeframe.. At 7PM  Friday we got our DMV certification.. and

this was without the lights. I spent a couple of hours mounting about

half of the LEDS.. .. We took of for the playa at about 2 AM.. but on

the way, a malfunction with one of the machine;s hubs  chewed up all my

wires on the right side. Ugh. I spent about an hour on ladder at the

playa doing battlefield repairs and cursing the decision to go.. Around

3:30 AM we were back in business.. and believe it or not.. everything

worked !  We drove around until sunrise. Folks really, really dug the

design..  I’ll never forget driving into the sunrise with a full load

of riders, music going. lights working.. and a crowd following us like

the pied piper. It was memorable.    We went back to camp around 7..

but on the way we had a number of mechanical breakdowns… Two sheared

pins on the hydraulic motor, a chain sprocket dropped off, etc. but we

managed to improvise and got home for 4 hours of sleep. Sat afternoon 

i mounted the rest of the lights.. while the guys tried to figure out

why the diesel wouldn’t start.. Again.. me wondering about my decision

to be there… around 5  I was able to break free and go check things

out, visit friends and make a pilgrimage to the temple.. Which I needed

to do in Sam’s honor. That changed everything.. I came back recharged,

loving the fact that I was there with my friends and my brother.. and

ready to enjoy the burn.. Around 8 we were hit by a hellish sandstorm 

.. it got bad enough that they delayed the start of the burn.. around

10, things cleared up and we started up the machine and headed down to

the playa.   Just as we hit Esplanade, they torched the man in a spray

of fireworks. it was a perfect time to enter..   Somehow somebody was

looking out for us (Sam ? ).. because from that moment until Billy and

I had to leave at 2.. the timecycle worked flawlessly.. the motors

motored, the lights were beautiful, the chairs gracefully  went

around.. It could not have been more perfect.. !!!!  It was such a rush

seeing how much folks liked the device.. we had a huge line of folks

wanting to take the ride all night.. and the lights (if I may say so)..

were pretty cool and distinctive.. you could pick the thing out from

halfway across the playa..  I don’t know if it was an amazing change of

luck.. or our karma finally kicked in.. but whatever.. it all felt

right and worthwhile…  Around 2AM Billy and I hugged everybody and