Sunday, August 26th, 2012
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Arriving in Reno: Definitely the best part of flying to Reno has been playing “Spot the Burners”. The (not-so-challenging) challenge: pick out who else is making the trek to the Black Rock Desert. And fuck, have I seen some crazy looking folks. One guy arrived at the gate in Washington with a beautiful white, floor-length fur coat and an amazing leather vest. Looked like he walked off the set of a medieval movie. J made a few friends on his flight, including a 40 year old male stripper with blue eyeliner, a sweet, red-haired girl and a tattooed, brightly dressed man with the trippiest shoes I’ve ever seen. We swapped camp locations and will be finding each other (hopefully)!

The developments: I met up with S at baggage claim in the Reno airport and I could tell he’d had a stressful last few days. Apparently he went to Cruise America to pick up the RV and had been given one only half full with gas and propane. Then he’d spent several hours finding a replacement and ended up forgetting to pick up the Rave Booth packages we’d had mailed to the main office! The plan is to call Cruise America and ask another Burner to bring the boxes with them in their RV in return for either money -or- the extra ticket that Scott now has because his friends from Minnesota had to bail. An extra ticket?!?! Blasphemy! Either we’ll flog it and recoup some cash or gift it to someone in return for a (rather significant) favor.