Any Burners here?

[ZoNiE]

My DW and I happen to have the time off this year for Burning Man, have never been, and want to go. We just missed the last registration window. If anyone here has two tickets and a Vehicle Pass to sell because you cannot go, please PM me!

Cheers!

 

[johnny b]

A new test of self reliance on the Playa.....Bugs!
Stink bugs and seed bugs full of mustard oil.

Good luck to all the Burners this year. Load up on the bug juice/sun block combos.

http://blog.burningman.com/2015/08/environment/bugs-on-the-playa-dont-believe-the-buzz/

http://gizmodo.com/weve-identified-those-bugs-infesting-burning-man-and-1725287661

 

[Ken in Anaheim]

This is probably the best place to find any (of the VERY EXPENSIVE) tickets.....but you're cuttin it awfully close !
KinA

https://eplaya.burningman.com/index.php

 

[highdesertranger]

I think a member here, Debit Servus is going might want to ask them. highdesertranger

 

[ZoNiE]

We gave up changed plans. tickets are useless without a vehicle pass. Only the rich people get in now.

 

[highdesertranger]

We gave up changed plans. tickets are useless without a vehicle pass. Only the rich people get in now.

that's exactly why I don't go. rich people acting like they are like everybody else. everything there is super expensive. even the nearest town Gerlach NV raises all their prices around the time of burning man. this is not your burning man of old, it's all commercialized. so far from where they started, it's almost sickening. in fact it is sickening. highdesertranger

 

[ZoNiE]

that's exactly why I don't go.  rich people acting like they are like everybody else.  everything there is super expensive.  even the nearest town Gerlach NV raises all their prices around the time of burning man.  this is not your burning man of old,  it's all commercialized.  so far from where they started,  it's almost sickening.  in fact it is sickening.   highdesertranger

Time to start a new one, perhaps...:dodgy:

 

[akrvbob]

I've never been and probably never will, and that's find with me.

However, I do know that they MUST keep the BLM happy and to do that they have to build a city in the desert and then tear it down, all without leaving the slightest trace it was ever there--and that ain't cheap!

It's the problem with all counter-culture movements, if they are good they will grow and if they grow at some point they have to conform to societies demands--like build a city and tear it down.

Do you stay small and have no impact? Or do you grow, have an impact, and be forced to conform to some degree? It's tough and not as easy as we like to think.
Bob

 

[highdesertranger]

exactly Bob, let them stay in the city where they belong. I was in the area a couple of years ago, they where building the city at the time. you would not believe the amount of material involved in bringing this off. it looked like the pictures I have seen of D-day. there had to be 500 semi trucks and at least 2,000 shipping containers being shuttled out to the lake bed. the shipping containers were stacked 2 high covering acres. not to mention the trash, one day a wind storm came up and we were on the down wind side there was all kinds of trash in the wind and this was just the construction crew the crowd hadn't even arrived yet and we at this time were at least 10 miles from the event. if you ask me the whole thing is sickening, bunch of hypocrites. I have bit my lip on this until now, my rant is over. highdesertranger

 

[Reducto]

I went from 2001-2008. The reason tickets and vehicle passes are expensive is they were required to limit the numbers by the BLM. Scalpers pick up the tickets and the price skyrockets. There's more than enough room out there for the event to get bigger but the road in can't support it.

In 2008 I went there 2 weeks early to help build a project about the size of a 2 bedroom house, which we burned down at the end. Most of those semis headed out there are for private projects like that. A couple of artists/carpenters had an idea and gathered resources and help to make it happen. The next year another group wants to top it so they do the same only it's 10 feet taller. I didn't take part in the music camps but the same thing happens there - every year it's bigger amps, more lights.

You can't buy anything other than ice and coffee (long story) once you're at the event. If you wait to buy stuff in Gerlach instead of stopping in Reno or Fernley that's up to you. I don't know if I can blame the locals for taking advantage of the situation.

Anyone can get a $390 ticket and $50 vehicle pass, you just have to be ready to buy when they open sales.

 

[Ken in Anaheim]

I think Bob DID start one......WELCOME TO THE RTR !!!
KinA

 

[66788]

Maybe we should burn a van at the end of the RTR and call it "BURNING VAN".

 

[akrvbob]

I'm pretty sure the BLM and local Sheriff would not find any humor in that!
Bpb

 

[ZoNiE]

Maybe we should burn a van at the end of the RTR and call it "BURNING VAN".

Now THAT's Funny!

Glad we didn't get to go. Place is infested with biting bugs...

 

[66788]

I'm pretty sure the BLM and local Sheriff would not find any humor in that!
Bpb

Even less the owner of the van...