We spent the whole day assmblign and wiring the rest of fluffy..even after 4 years of doing it… its still hard work.
mid morning max came by on his way to the playa with his freinds Autumn and Chris. He’s campign with them during the early poart of the week… he’s helping wiht the pyro on burning a sculpture that that was to have burned in 2023 .. but got rained out..
We’re so excited about being with him and gabe out on the playa
In the afternoon, Ben and I headed out, dropped off our rental car and [icked u[ the cam[er. Its goign to be home for the next week and a half.. It looks like it will be perfect
by about 8PM we had everythign working.. the original plan was to leave at dawn tomorrow.. but everyone was pretty beat… so instead we dcided to meet at 10 and start towards playa from there.. it’s gonna be a long slow drive as fluffy can only do 20-30 mph with her clouds on.. and we anticipate a long line to get in tot eh playa.. even though it’s still build week.
THis morning we all me at the Reno Generator.. maker space to begin assembling Fluffy.. We had to unload the clouds, order them.. then start the process of mounting them on the bus. DIane had the great idea to record the order and position of how the clouds were stacked in the bus to make it easier to repack them.
mounting and wiring the clouds involves lots f lugging and wiring.. but also fun .. sort of
We also got to take breaks to see all the other stuff being prepped for the playa in the Generator.. THere were lots of people working hard.. lots of fun, lots of stress
By the end of the day, we had one whole side of flufy mounted and lit.. good progess.. still much to do !
We headed back to J Sues.. it’s been really nice hangign out with her .
Mid morning we started our long trip to Reno.. We had two stops.. so it gave me lots of time to work on tehe plane.. I love my time in the air for getting stuff done.
We got to Reno about 8 Pm .. nad headed to our good friends Sue and Jim’s . Jim,s out of town.. Sues offered her house as a placw to stay while we work on Fluffy in prep for trasmer to the playa on Friday>>
Sue and Jim are our good freind Dylan’s parents.. When Sam died, Dylan really took gabe under his wing.. Dydlan was ana amazing snowboarder.. he actually won the US open snowboard competition in Copper Co…. and we were there to see it ,.
Dylan died in 2015 in a car accident and he bacame an organ donor .. just like Sam..
Sue and Jim moved out to reno a few years back and we’ve kept in close touch/
here are soem picutres of and by Dylan in their house
it’s really nice to be seeing Sue and Jim out here !
Today we made soem final prep for leaving tomorrow. one of the last things was making tags for things like our phones, bikes, bags, water bottles, cups, etc so they can find their way back to us on the playa if lost.
such a simple idea. saved my stuff many times in the past. Oh.. Diane has chosen a playa name.. Maple !// how sweet is that ?!?! nite all, note sam -me
