I went out for a walk before gabe  woke up.. in search of soemthing to fix my toe.. it was just after sunrise..

 

By the time I got back to our seedy hotel. gabe was wakung u.. We packed  up an found the caravan of trucks… and headed with the crew to Whole Foods for provisioning. John Marston (Stark) has done an excellent job of planning the shopping. each meal’s shoping and receipes were printed on laminaed cards.. /the store was ready for us !

our job was to run around the store, pick up the stuff on the card, get in line to pay.. then take it out for sorting into cloth bags and ice chests.. 

 

you could even buy ‘sparkle ponies’ ( a derogetory term for folks who show up at burnign man with out equiment and provisions to survive on the dessert. 

 

we filled two trucks wiht our stuff

 

and headed out to blck rock. I went with dom and caralyn with ther old beater camper that they baught just to go to the burn. 

 

it was so great talkign to them and the others in the campers (aaron. arron, lu ie,dom carolyn) that we were in Gerlach in no time.. it’s the last point of civilization before Black rock 

 

it was a warm day.. there were at least 3 days in a row over 110 degrees. 

 

 

finally we tunreed off the freeway and on to the gate road.. it was in white out..  that only took us 3 miles.. it took gabe and his car 5 hours @

 

before we got in we were checked for stowaways… 

 

an here’s the belll that says ‘home’… 

 

first timers hit the bell then make a sand angel in the playa dust 

we got to our camsite.. Duanes Whiled at 8:15 and I ..

s

 

dom and carolyn were happy to doen driving. 

 

ok.. thats our first day of my delayed posts..

 

i;ll post the rest of my pics now

 

nite all. nite sam\-me

 

Apologoes: No pics tonight not enough bandwidth from our sleazeball hotel

gabe and i slept late. By the time we woke up it was almost 9… we opened the curtains and the blinding Nevada sun poured in. We decided to explore reno a little so we headed down to the truckee river to look at the art. There we found a Hawaii day festival.

we grabbed a bowl of sashimi and rice Hawaii style and ate breakfast….

from there we ubered up to meet our campmates at the storage compartment. We only new about 3 of the 15. Fun to meet new folks !

We spent about 4 hours cleaning it out, fixing 45 bikes, loading all the stuff into two 16 foot trucks we’d ordered a 24 foot one. In feb .they told us yesterday they didn’t have a truck for us. Same thing happened to us when we helped move gabe to his new apartment.

anyway by 5 we had both trucks completely packed. Gabe and i went off with dom and Caroline to wallmart to get some essentials (a car battery, an adult size dinosaur onesy, a cigar lighter, gold tape, mini bar)

 

 

 

 

finally we all ended up at the all you can eat buffet at the peppermil.

…chilli rellenos, capers, tatertots, ceviche , fried bananas…im now in a food coma

 

early morning tomorrow so I’ll  end here.. may add pictures later

nite all, nite sam

-me

 

 

 

Greetings  from somewhere over the western us. 

 Gabe and i are heading out to Reno tonight …in time to meet up with a group of frends who will load five tons of gear plus , water (3200 gallons)  beer, marshmellows, car batteries, duct tape, bicycles (32) and a thousand other necessities and no-so-necessities  into two 16 foot trucks and get them ready to drive to into the desert on Sunday. 

Were on our second fligth of three.. its been fun playing ‘spot the burner’ . We’ve been running into folks in the airports and the planes that you can just tell are heading the same place hat we are… id be hard pressed to say what it is.. they’re from all walks of life (what an interesting term)  old, young, shaggy, clean cut,. But i think its more abotu the way they’re smiling..

we are 🙂

More from the road tomorrow

nite all, nite sam

-me

I’m alos ton vacation !. Actually two weeks of working  at home has felt like a vacation after all the travel. But tomorrow I really go off line. Gabe and I take off for burning man. festival in the Nevada dessert. Max will be there too !  I’m so excited to go. This is the 4th time I’ve gone, 2n tiem for Gabe.. and I think 6th time for max. THis is the firt time I’m not involved with a big projects. .. and the first time I’m goign for the whoel thing.. I’m so , so syched

 

here’s my 46 pound bag of stuff I’m taking .. its huge !

 

but thats because it has our homemade swamp cooler air conditioner inside 🙂 

 

we’ve got samstoens to give out as well

 

once agi .. burning man falls on our anniversary..so we went out for sushi tonight to celebrate.. 

I am so lucky to be married to this girl….. !

 

OK.. all for now.. more from the road tomorrow

nite all. nite  sam

-me