Getting the Pinz to Hemet Before Burning Man

Need to do the usual summer shakedown cruises, maybe a month or so of back-and-forth to work.

I’ve got the exhaust making leaky noises. And I’m still thinking I might get some of my massive bills paid off — don’t think I’ll be spending a load of money at Burning Man this time. I’d like to take the Pinz but I must get it up to Hemet for a checkover first. Then drive up slowly and carefully.

I think I’ll wait till next weekend to take the Pinz up to Hemet — then I’ll actually be able to afford a bit of that, too.

Need to do it if I’m going to use it for the playa. Every year it’s the same calculation: how much life is left in this truck, what will it cost to find out, and is Burning Man close enough to justify finding out now instead of later. The answer is always yes.

If I either ride the bike or take the Pinz to work all summer, I should be in good shape for Burning Man. It’s all about Burning Man, isn’t it?

May-July 2002. The Pinz service shop in Hemet was one of the few places in Southern California that worked on Steyr-Puch vehicles. Driving the Pinz to work as conditioning for the playa is exactly the kind of logic that made sense at the time.