Wasteland Weekend -Burning Man w/ Road Warrior Twist

[wekilled]

Anyone up for this next year? Just discovered this event in SoCal next weekend. Too close for me to go this year, but thought it might be fun to get a group to roll in together to attend next year.

To me the VX is a little more of a high tech futuristic cyberpunk sort of vehicle but still a cool event: Post-apocalyptic costumes, The V8 Interceptor in person, fire breathing, cool bands, and camping in the desert..check it out!

http://wastelandweekend.com/

[ZEUS]

http://www.vehicross.info/forums/showthread.php?t=16965&highlight=Hellcamino

:smilewink

[wekilled]

Dang, after looking at the pics in the thread from nfpgasmask it looks like a much smaller turnout than it looked to be on the website. I figured in SoCal it would attract a huge following. Is that about a dozen people? Either way, I still want to go, just want to add a little more to the "baby-Stryker" before then.

[ZEUS]

Bart said there were about 200 fine freaks out there. Even B Man started out with less than that tho so this year could see more.

[wekilled]

Thought I'd re-engage on Wasteland Weekend 2011. If we got enough VXs together we could register a VX Tribe per the website. Anyway, end of Sept if anyone is still interested. Looking at getting the VX down there for sure. I want to buy tickets now in the Tier 2 window for the wife and I. I will go regardless, just thought it might be fun to roll in with a herd of us.

Thoughts?

[wekilled]

Gotta say, the event was EPIC. About 400+ guys and yes, a lot of females showed to party in the Mojave. Fire shows, music, lit a friend on fire with absinthe (sorry Dave), gambled, made use of the open bar and drank god knows what, did a little off-roading - and we all did it with very little clothes on. If I am in country I am absolutely going again.

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[JoFotoz]

WOW...wish I'd seen this earlier.

Would do it in a Heartbeat next year....

...and festooooooon the ORW with all manner of nasty stufffff!

jo

[wekilled]

We joined a tribe (Road Rash) before we went, so we had about 20 friends upon arrival to party with. It was inside basically a compound like Road Warrior with metal gates and female Thunderdome guards out 20 miles into the desert, which allowed for a sort of "friendly anarchy" atmosphere that allowed for bruises and hangovers. Just do a search online or find my folder on FaceBook with a good selection of photos.

[RabidPony]

Somebody set up an event for next year. I am so down for this as long as our grape harvest isn't late as hell like this year.

[wintermute]

This was mentioned on Wired (http://www.wired.com/underwire/tag/wasteland-weekend/) today, so perhaps a bigger turnout next time?

[wekilled]

700 non-VXers. One Vxer. That sounds about right. It was crazy in a very good way. I think we can definitely do better next time. Can't say enough great things about the event itself though. Both my wife and I had a freakin blast. If I am not overseas again, I will be there with the VX for sure. Now since I already have armor made for both of us, (see pics) I can concentrate on the VX post-apocalyptic mods I ran out of time to do. (satin black paint, spare tire rear mount and gascan, etc.) Of note, they have a website and a Facebook page. There are also tribe groups on FB, so with enough VXers you could start a VX tribe.