Hello my fellow burners,

I'm really taking a liberty by calling y'all that because I myself am not yet a true burner. This is my first year and I am so excited, yet my best friend and I hit a major bump in the road last night, so to speak. On our way to buy supplies for BM, our car got nailed in an intersection and we won't be able to repair it before the trip (*what do you know, we drained our finances on the trip and now we can't afford the repairs before insurance comes through!*). The good news is that no one got hurt- Yay!! But now, with a week and a half before the event and not enought money to rent a car, we need to call upon the rest of the community for help. We really are nice people, I promise it will be a good thing to have us there, if by chance any of you can help us make that happen, well, we would be soooo unbelievably grateful. Also, important to note- we are in Seattle and we both have to work on Monday 8/29, so we can' leave until 6pm or later on the 29th or any time on Tuesday (we want to get there as soon as possible of course, but understand that beggars can't be choosers). We need to be home safely by the following Monday night 9/5 (I don't know, by like midnight or something??). We can cover gas of course, or whatever other trade or barter will help our kind-hearted saviour. The options we are open to explore are these: just get a ride with someone (will need room for stuff, unless one of the big trucks heading down would let us throw our stuff on before you go?? Burner Dave, I met you on Vashon 4th of July last year and I sooo wish I had a way to contact you now!!), get rides with seperate someones (we're friends and there are only 2 of us, but we're not attached at the hip or anything), Get someone with ample cargo space, but no passenger space, to take our stuff down and we'll go greyhound to Reno and need a rideshare from Reno to BRC? Any other offers, suggestions, or good vibes would be sooooo amazing- thank you for reading our plea!!! ~~Katie & Lisa