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3 minutes ago, whweldit said:

Ran across a documentary on it a few weeks ago.   It is a bucket list consideration. 

Wel let me konw if you are gonna go.  Id need some encouragement.  :)

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19 minutes ago, oldtech said:

Wel let me konw if you are gonna go.  Id need some encouragement.  :)

Actually the wife and daughter (that found the documentary) wants to go.   Logistics may say otherwise but who knows.  There is a place you can rent a rv for burning man near there.  

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I think we should buy and old school bus, paint it like a Farmall and go down there like a bunch of old hippies!

Might be the last wild thing Id ever get to do!

Oh to be young again!

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1 minute ago, whweldit said:

Actually the wife and daughter (that found the documentary) wants to go.   Logistics may say otherwise but who knows.  There is a place you can rent a rv for burning man near there.  

Hey at 73 what have I got to lose?  Im already a film star!

The film Im in is showing in Dallas this week at the theater that Lee Harvey Oswald was captured in.  How bizarre is that?

I doubt Id go blind.

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Sounds like fun!

Ive looked into it several times. Never have the cash to blow. If you're wearing clothes they are expected to be in costume. Probably be easier to go without. Definitely cheaper!

I might be able to come up with a bus but it would need a complete redo before going.  How much gas would it take to drive from Arkansas to Burning man???

I read the RVs cost around $7000 for the week.. 

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I flew passengers into Reno for burning man many times . Yep, all sorts of costumes and a lots of excitement from aging hippies. When returning they and all their clothes and luggage was covered with playa, a very fine white dust that gets everywhere. Plane would need a complete detailing after.

The National Auto Museum is in Reno and has many of the Harrah cars, a very good take.

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2 hours ago, acem said:

Sounds like fun!

Ive looked into it several times. Never have the cash to blow. If you're wearing clothes they are expected to be in costume. Probably be easier to go without. Definitely cheaper!

I might be able to come up with a bus but it would need a complete redo before going.  How much gas would it take to drive from Arkansas to Burning man???

I read the RVs cost around $7000 for the week.. 

one site I looked at for giggles showed around $3500.   Not sure what size or what was included.  Long way from Alabama    If close enough I could see buying an older rv and going then selling for whatever you could get.  No way would I want to dry or rough camp there for a week. Of course 3 days would be enough.     Also read that you had to be sure rental place allowed the vehicle to go to burning man because of the playa dust.  

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5 hours ago, New Englander said:

I flew passengers into Reno for burning man many times . Yep, all sorts of costumes and a lots of excitement from aging hippies. When returning they and all their clothes and luggage was covered with playa, a very fine white dust that gets everywhere. Plane would need a complete detailing after.

The National Auto Museum is in Reno and has many of the Harrah cars, a very good take.

Unless it rains........those are some interesting videos to watch.  The total washout of that festival a couple of years ago.  Everything I've ever read or seen about that party in the desert turns my stomach.

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It would be interesting to see, there's some odd and creative ducks out there. Click on below link it'll take you to the google map of the spot - turn on street view in the bottom right. The pictures are telling, it would be hot dry and dusty, or a hot muddy mess that I'd just as soon avoid.

Google Maps

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Red Tail Aviation out of Moab, Utah, set up a temporary landing strip and ferried moneyed folks from Reno in their Kodiak planes. Some of the later flights I did transferred to them to get to their well provisioned RV already staged at Burning Man.

Red Tail runs the FBO at Canyon Land Airport. We visited often as the principle had a home on the Colorado River there. Since we bought lots of jet fuel and our plane sunk into the ramp they cast a concrete parking area just for us. It was good incentive for us to keep buying more fuel than we needed for the courtesy. 

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