The Vegan Bus

We are very close to getting a bus, and our maiden voyage will be to Burning Man 2007. The theme of the festival is The Green Man and the entire city infrastructure for 40,000 people will be powered by Bio-Fuel! We will be driving from Northampton Massachsetts to the Black Rock desert near Gerlach, Nevada where the festival is held every year, in our Bio-Bus.

• Tentative Date of Departure: Friday, August 24th
• Expected Date of Arrival at Burning Man: Wednesday, August 29th
• Leave Burning Man: Sunday, September 2nd (After Temple Burn?)
• Expected Arrival in Northampton: Thursday, September 6th

• Days of Trip: 14
• Days at Burning Man: 5
• Total Distance (one way): 2,848 miles
• Total Hours Driving (one way): 42

We have created a GOOGLE MAP OF OUR ROUTE. At the time of this posting the map just shows the route themind of the machine chose for us, but we are hoping to pick up some stray burners and vegans along the way. If you are interested in riding with us for any leg of the journey please let us know. We are willing to bend the route a bit to make new friends, seek out some thrills, and to experience great vegan food!

We will also need people and places along the way to hook us up with grease! If you are or know of a restaurant on our route with used fryer oil to contribute please contact us! We have filters and the equipment to extract the oil from the storage bins and store it on our bus or in our tank. Restaurants usually have to pay to dispose of the oil, so we can help trim the bottom line for purveyors of fried food.

So far the recommended route takes us through:

• Massachusetts
• New York State (Albany, Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo)
• Ohio (Cleveland)
• Michigan and Indiana (Along the border of the two states)
• Illinois (Chicago)
• Iowa (Des Moines)
• Nebraska (Omaha)
• Wyoming and Colorado (border of two states)
• Utah (Salt Lake City)
• Nevada (Burning Man!)

If you aren’t quite shure how you got here and what this is all about check out our site links to learn more about Burning Man, Bio Buses, Veganism and more…

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John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats poses with his wife Lalitree wearing their Vegan Bus Tee Shirts

Help support the Vegan Bus by helping yourself look ultra-hip in one of our new Vegan Bus Tee Shirts! Our sweatshop-free cotton tee shirts with the stylish Vegan Bus logo (lovingly printed by Moonlight Designs) are a great way to spark up a conversation about veganism, bio-buses, or anything else you want to talk about, because when people see you wearing one they will just want to talk to you!

Derek got a chance to meet John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats at Farm Sanctuary’s Zoop! fundraiser. He was quite a down-to-earth guy and was happy to pose with his equally wonderful wife Lalitree for this photo wearing their brand-new Vegan Bus Tee Shirts. Derek also interviewed John for Vegan Radio, you can check out that interview on Vegan Radio’s 40th podcast.

Order your very own Vegan Bus Tee Shirt at The Vegan Bus Store!

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Megan E Labonte (aka Hoopmaster Sass) hooping at our fundraiser

It has been a while since I have posted, mostly because we have all been busy with our various lives, but things are mooving along with the project and I wanted to post briefly to let y’all know how things are going…

Our first fundraiser raised nearly $1000, thanks so much to everyone who contributed! Besides the art auction we had wonderful vegan pizza from Cafe Evolution, live music that culminated with several afro-beat musicians jamming some tunes and lots of dancing, while Megan Labonte led some hula hooping out in the parking lot.

Our vegan bellydancing week was lots of fun, with visiting bellydancer Amethyst helping us raise another $100 towards the bus. We found out there is a local vegan bellydancer too, named Shaina. You can hear Shaina and Amethyst interviewed on Vegan Radio.

Currently we are looking at some buses and coming up with some new fundraiser ideas. There will be a concert or two this summer. Other ideas are Vegan Bus Bingo and a hula hoop building workshop. If you have any ideas or would like to contribute in some other way please contact us!

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