Author: jordi

Christmas eve brunch on the bus! We made blueberry pancakes, banana walnut pancakes, bacon, omelettes, and soyrizo veggie scramble. Plus, Jeran brought saffron buns she made from her super special Swedish recipe. It was all so good!

Vinny installed the griddles, then Vinny and Nathan cooked the first meal on the bus!

Weighed the bus! It came in almost 4000 pounds lighter than I had thought. Good news 😀

Weight and Balance spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/…/1P3smws9Z_LIwwFTJsnbZd9iCSW…/edit…

Orange means I pulled numbers out of my ass, so we should at least try to get better data. Magenta is decisions we need to make (I’ve taken a first stab at them, there’s more optimizing to do.) The most important results are marked in yellow. The wide bar under the table is red if either axle is overloaded and green if we’re good to go.

The floor is glued down! We still need to finish cutting and gluing the sides, but the floor part of it is down and secure. (It was a bit of a journey getting there!) The photos are Nathan and Pete troweling the glue onto the last patch of floor. Also, the escape hatches were both leaking, so Devon and Nathan climbed up there to (temporarily) fix it. Eventually we’ll have to do a better job of fixing them, but we’ll deal with that later. Twenty points if you can figure out what’s happening in the last photo 🙂.

All the kitchen equipment is now in the warehouse! One picture has the freezer, steam table, and sink. The other is the stock pot burner. (Devon for scale.)

Photos! We’re almost ready to put the vinyl floor in. Jack installed a floor drain for us. (The sinks will all drain into the floor drain, the floor drain goes to the dirty water tank. Health code thing.) The roll of vinyl is already in the bus. It weighs something like 300 pounds.

It’s decided: The Very Hungry Caterpillar is our thing now.

Plan on an animated face that moves through the expressions in the book (and more). Legs that move. Antennae that wiggle around.

The artwork in the book is absolutely amazing, so we’re going to try to mimic and honor it as closely as we possibly can. I’m imagining lots of patches of thin fabric overlapping. Maybe muslin or spandex. (Spandex always looks spectacular on-playa.) We’ll have to find a perfectly gorgeous way to light it too. Not sure what that’s going to look like yet. Much to figure out!