I'm screwed
August/17/2007 Filed in: bumps in the
road
Bad news on the transportation front: with one week to go before
the caravan crawls out of the mossy sanctuary of the Pacific
Northwest for the dusty, desiccated void of the Black Rock Desert,
my Toyota 4Runner sprung a leak. I've had a series of problems with
the coolant system since the day I bought the rig -- the radiator
gave out hours after I sealed the deal. This time around, the water
pump has given out. My mechanic is replacing the water pump, valve
cover gasket, timing belt, cam seals, crank seal and coolant. The
damage? $1000!
Do you have any idea what a grand could do right now as I scramble to prepare for Burning Man?!?! Do you know how much booze, blinky lights, food & water, wigs & masks, playatech furniture, bacon and gifts for the community I could round up with a budget of $1000? It is driving me totally insane getting hit with this right now. On top of the financial meltdown, I won't get the ride back until Monday, so my last weekend pre-departure will be spent without wheels -- just when I was planning on doing mad errands, shopping trips, last sorties to the thrift stores.....
Now more than ever, this One Broke Dude needs some outside financial assistance. This website and blog receives hundreds upon hundreds of visitors each month, but the donation flow has been meager at best. That's fine. We're pulling of our dream and our desire to burn anyways. But if you have been enjoying the photo galleries, the movies, following the dBM blog or grooving on the podcasts, maybe you'll feel inspired to pitch in $5, $10, $20 towards the mission. I'm going to be seriously scraping the bottom of the barrel to get my truck back on the road, and the random (financial) kindness of strangers will go a long way towards not only funding the dream but raising my spirits as well. This site has a link to the Destination Burning Man Paypal account, and with a few keystrokes, you can send some monetary relief our way and feel good about contributing to the Three Broke Dudes/Boogie Universal/Boogie Pyramid mission! Click here to contribute....and thanks in advance!
The only good thing about my water pump going out now? At least it is happening here in Bellingham and not in Bumfuck, Nevada en route to the Burn!!!
Do you have any idea what a grand could do right now as I scramble to prepare for Burning Man?!?! Do you know how much booze, blinky lights, food & water, wigs & masks, playatech furniture, bacon and gifts for the community I could round up with a budget of $1000? It is driving me totally insane getting hit with this right now. On top of the financial meltdown, I won't get the ride back until Monday, so my last weekend pre-departure will be spent without wheels -- just when I was planning on doing mad errands, shopping trips, last sorties to the thrift stores.....
Now more than ever, this One Broke Dude needs some outside financial assistance. This website and blog receives hundreds upon hundreds of visitors each month, but the donation flow has been meager at best. That's fine. We're pulling of our dream and our desire to burn anyways. But if you have been enjoying the photo galleries, the movies, following the dBM blog or grooving on the podcasts, maybe you'll feel inspired to pitch in $5, $10, $20 towards the mission. I'm going to be seriously scraping the bottom of the barrel to get my truck back on the road, and the random (financial) kindness of strangers will go a long way towards not only funding the dream but raising my spirits as well. This site has a link to the Destination Burning Man Paypal account, and with a few keystrokes, you can send some monetary relief our way and feel good about contributing to the Three Broke Dudes/Boogie Universal/Boogie Pyramid mission! Click here to contribute....and thanks in advance!
The only good thing about my water pump going out now? At least it is happening here in Bellingham and not in Bumfuck, Nevada en route to the Burn!!!
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