{"id":13070,"date":"2014-09-18T00:38:30","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T04:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=13070"},"modified":"2014-09-18T00:38:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T04:38:30","slug":"wednesday-night-tales-from-the-playa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2014\/09\/18\/wednesday-night-tales-from-the-playa\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday night &#8211; tales from the Playa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So busy now.. it&#8217;s 12L15 AM and I&#8217;m just finishing up my work day..\u00a0 tired byt happy..<\/p>\n<p>Max is in town and it&#8217;s wonderful to see him. Haven&#8217;t really spoken with him much since his trip out to burning man. He told us about 3 hours of storied=s about his epic trip out west, the burn and the trip back..\u00a0\u00a0 Just getting there\u00a0 in their 5 ton 6 wheel surplus troop carrier was a novel in itself.. it included<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the alternator frying a few hours into the trip<\/li>\n<li>a new bout not perfect alternator jury rigged in with a hand made mount<\/li>\n<li>driving with an average top speed of 55 mph<\/li>\n<li>the engine burning out in Wyoming<\/li>\n<li>getting help from the &#8216;Steel Soldiers&#8217; online forum to find a new engine many hours away in utah<\/li>\n<li>arraigning to get that engine to Wyoming and fitted in to the trukck<\/li>\n<li>meanwhile renting a Ryder truck to take max, most of the crew and their belongings to black rock Nevada<\/li>\n<li>the compressor failing between Utah and Wyoming (all the breaks and controls on this thing are air powered.. ) they did rolling stops for the last full day of driving.. no real breaks<\/li>\n<li>the truck finally making i to black rock on Thursday night and running out of diesel 100 yards form the entrance<\/li>\n<li>maxi running around at night trying to find diesel. ultimately siphoning it by mouth from a friends truck..<\/li>\n<li>running out to the truck just before it got toed, filling it with fuel, but taking an hour to bleed the now air filled fuel lines<\/li>\n<li>getting it started,.. but having no compressor to release the 6 wheels disk breaks<\/li>\n<li>max coming up with the brilliant idea to use the air in the spare tire to pressure the brake controls .. which released the brakes,<\/li>\n<li>by that time the folks had changed at the gate, and wouldn&#8217;t let them back in.. though they finally persuaded the to..<\/li>\n<li>between the gate and the camp, the thing overheated again because the brakes had reengaged and it was fighting them,<\/li>\n<li>re-pressurizing them with the tires, getting to camp and sleeping for a whole day<\/li>\n<li>getting just enough of their LEDs functioning to get a night drive license from the department of\u00a0 mutant vehicle\u00a0 (the DMV out there)<\/li>\n<li>having all the light electronics shorted out by an ill aimed Champagne spray&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>throwing dummy Christmas lights all over the thing<\/li>\n<li>.. and having a wonderful two nights at the burn after all that !!!<\/li>\n<li>driving it triumphantly around the playa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>i was so happy to hear about\u00a0 his and his teas inventiveness getting this truck out there.. and so happy he enjoyed himself.. that&#8217;s my boy !!!<\/p>\n<p>i do love my kids !<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">here are some of max&#8217;s pictures from his trip<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/10606250_10202670826157838_622704726186835107_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/10632694_10202761653268459_8706630816710038317_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/10606585_10202675604357290_7902549767206015380_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/10644451_10202761648828348_7893915433941927461_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/10659322_10202761651988427_9091883749410389063_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/15682_10202761651188407_5105020807267982187_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/10006980_10202761649308360_1723663850006974525_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/10357231_10202663960106191_7439708819982000374_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So busy now.. it&#8217;s 12L15 AM and I&#8217;m just finishing up my work day..\u00a0 tired byt happy.. Max is in town and it&#8217;s wonderful to see him. Haven&#8217;t really spoken with him much since his trip out to burning man. He told us about 3 hours of storied=s about his epic trip out west, the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2014\/09\/18\/wednesday-night-tales-from-the-playa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday night &#8211; tales from the Playa<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[948],"class_list":["post-13070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-tales-from-the-playa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13079,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13070\/revisions\/13079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}