Burning Man 2010: The Ride There (A Series of Lists)
An adventure, to say the least.
Days:
- Day ride is secured: Wednesday, 25 August 2010
- Day of departure: Sunday, 29 August 2010
- Day of arrival: Monday, 30 August 2010
Hours:
- Scheduled meet-up: 9 a.m.
- Scheduled launch: 10 a.m.
- Actual meet-up: 10 a.m.
- Actual launch: 11 a.m.
- Arrival: 11 a.m. the next day
The Ride:
- Name: Swamp Thing
- Make: Housebus
- Top speed: 55 mph
- Average speed: 40 mph
- Passengers from Portland: 10
- Passengers from Eugene: 12
- Passengers from Klamath Falls: 12
- Passengers from Gerlach: 13
- People named after flowers: 2
- Little people: 1
- Hitchhikers: 2
- Stow-aways: 3
- Brake failures: 1
Things said during break failure:
- “Oh, shit!”
- “Are you doing alright?”
- “No, just shut the fuck up.”
- “Hey, you guys! Look at the moon!”
- “Shut the fuck up, Molly!!!”
- “Easy does it.”
- “Dear, god. Bla bla bla some sort of prayer.”
- Everyone, silently: “Shut the fuck up, Molly!!!”
Ingested substances:
- Large bag of beef jerky
- Half-bag of turkey jerky
- Small bag of salmon jerky
- Half-bag of dried mango
- 32 12-oz Pabst Blue Ribbon beers
- One 16.9 oz coconut water
- Some water
- Several cigarettes
- Several marijuana cookies
- Several bowls of marijuana
Miscellanea:
- Miles traveled: 497
- Estimated time: 10 hours 10 minutes
- Actual time: ≅24 hours
- Morgan’s luggage: guitar, saxophone, small duffle bag
- Morgan’s cans of pee: 5
- Naps per person: 2.375
- Male:Female ratio: 10:3
- Babies on board: 1 (until Klamath Falls)
- Bikes: 1
- Radios: 0
- Saxophones: 1
- Banjos: 1
- Accordions: 1
- Didgeridoos: 1
- Drums made of empty beer cases: 2
- Guitars: 3
- Grateful Dead songs played on guitar: all of them
(Source: buchino)
