In about 36 more hours Slinkerbell, + the fisholution, + some of our awesome campmates at bat country, + myself will be leaving for the playa!
I will be sporting a purple mohawk and camped with bat country at 9:30 and esplanade. Yee-Haw!
Woohoo! We got our camp placement. Bat Country will be at 9:30 & Esplanade!
Needless to say, I am very stoked, here we go!
Only 34 days left until I am on the playa, and watching the man burn to the ground. Exciting to say the least!
This year we are building the Fisholution which is a catfish-lizard like creature that is about 30 feet long. There is still many items on my BM2009 todo list, but I am feeling like we are near the end of preparations, which is awesome.
It is that time of the the year, that the dunes are open and calling my name. Well actually they call my name every year all the time, but this it the first year
in a while I will be able to make my families annual camping trip to the Oregon coast to ride the dunes.
We are going to a spot that is a few minutes away from Coos Bay. I am not sure I have been to this exact spot before, but I am pretty stoked. The bikes are clean, lubed, and armed with paddle tires, the fleet is ready. Hopefully I will have time to snap a few pictures, cross your fingers.
After wrangling the sand for a few days, we will be heading out just in time to hit San Francisco Decompression, where we will see a whole slew of bats, and other neighbors from home. Not too long after this, I will also be attending San Diego Decompression, too, making my decompression circuit for this year probably complete.
Happy Trails
-spotman
It has been the most amazing Burning Man ever. I am finally starting to gain feeling back in my limbs and pick up speed in the real world. Often with a lot of experiences one goes through in life, the first time you experience something, you get a feeling that is very hard to achieve again. Whether its white water rafting, or the first time you win a race, you had never known what it was going to be like previously, so you went into it full bore, and came out victorious. How does one achieve this feeling again? Until Burning Man 2008, I did not believe it was possible.
This year was incredible, and to be perfectly honest, there are no words which can express the depth of energy that this year contained. Bat Country was explosive, and infectious. Every single member of our camp went the extra mile this year. We asked for people to step up and bring extra supplies, supplies were there. We asked people to step up and take extra trash home, it was taken. We had the most stress free, successful week of our lives known to date, and for just a few nights at the end of the week, after we had worked very hard to build our camp and meet our original goals, Bat Country, was the place to be on the playa, at least for almost every single bat. We rocked the playa and fully satisfied our camp's goals. We are now even more motivated and want to bring the same theme back in 2009, and be ready for Evolution. 
There was so much energy pumped into our camp this year due to all the awesome people that are in it, it was completely awesome and unbelievable. Thank you to everyone out there in Bat Country that helped make this year a success. The man burns in 362 days. Bat Country will be ready.
Few pictures here. more coming soon.
