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The day we arrived Sunday.

Friday we were on the road from 6am until about 10:30pm. We drove from Fort Worth to Durango Colorado. We swapped riders and drivers around and got to know one another.

Saturday we drove from 9 or so in the morning until 11pm that night stopping in Fallen NV. About 2.5 hours south of were Burning Man is held. By this time we had started to get on each others nerves. Not bad as everyone was adults and acted that way but it was tenser than the day before.

Sunday we get up late (9am) ate some breakfast and reloaded the trucks. Mark took Rob and they drove into Reno to pick up 4 more people that flew in that were staying with DFW and beyond theme camp (Marks theme camp) one lady flew in from Florida!

Tom, Serena, Paullina and me all packed into my truck and drove to the local Wally world and Safeway and bought last minutes supplies like water and booze! I guess we did buy some food. And Serena got a reply on an email on the way and ended up needing a business outfit because she had to fly out the next Monday to Penn. for a job interview so she bought an outfit at Wally world.

The Safeway was packed with "Hippies" like us buying water and food and lots of booze. These were my first true burners I saw. Multi colored clothes, dreadlocks etc what you would expect burners to look like in public. It was a fun atmosphere in the store!

Out in the parking lot loading up and waiting for individuals to finish we all started getting nervous and excited. None drivers, that is everyone but me opened a beer!

We piled the 4 of us cramped in big time into the truck. The 2 girls in the back with there knees touching there chins and me and toms seats moved all the way forward. It was going to be tough ride the next 2 hours!

I could tell we were all nervous, excited, and on top of that tired from driving and tired of each other plus we were cramped in like sardines. So I got Paullina who lived in Russia until she was 20 and who graduated from a University there to give us a Russian History lesson. This was a life saver. Got our minds off everything and learned a lot!

It was wall to wall vehicles the last 2 hours. Welcome to the desert! The last 45 minutes or so was real good. We got to see our first view of the event.