So Bill showed up late, spilled drinks and crashed the bus, all in under two hours. Wow.

We totally passed nine points on Desert Bus a couple hours ago, but in the excitement of auctions, dancing and so on, we completely didn’t mention it. Next up: 10!! Bus hard, team.

If you live in BC, or just like listening to Canadian radio, you can hear our the Desert Bus being interviewed for On The Coast, one of Kathleen’s favourite radio programs! Listen in Vancouver at 88.1 FM, or go to www.cbc.ca to listen online anywhere – 4:10 pm PST.

We will also be on All Points West at 3:45 pm PST. Listen in Victoria on 90.5 Fm, or listen online anywhere at http://www.cbc.ca/allpointswest/

With a perfect driving record thus far into the event, our drivers have beaten their own record from Desert Bus year one, scoring a massive SEVEN POINTS! May we never crash!

So alot of you have been asking about our setup and just wanted to show you what we have going. Hear are 3 pictures of from various angles which should give you a decent idea of whats going on.

We’ve had had a lot of coverage on various news site and blogs over the last day-and-a-half that I haven’t had time to recognize — I’ve been too busy staunching the bus-induced blood from my eyeballs.

Here’s a rundown:

• Critical Gamer from the UK gave us a very nice writeup and spot on their site
• Thanks to Alex and Dan Yost for giving us links on their respective blogs!
• Icrontic’s article has a nice recap of the last two years, and some cgood content about this year, so thanks for that!
• Shamus Young of The Escapist’s fantastic 20-Sided RPG column sent a good amount of traffic our way–I read it, you should too!
• The Serious Business posted some very kind words about us, which is good, because Desert Bus is srs bsnss
• Tweet Gazette–likely inspired by our “trendy” Friday has covered us as well … odd screenshot choice, but I’ll take it!

Thanks so much to everyone that’s covered us. If you know of an outlet that’s covered us who I haven’t mentioned, please send the link to to stuff@desertbus.org

We have now achieved FIVE POINTS without crashing — 40 hours of safe driving!

Does this mean cheap insurance? Probably not — it does mean we’re eight hours closer to beating our own Desert Bus record.

All around awesome dude, RogerExplosion has made a java version of Desert Bus for you to play in your browser. Check it out at:

http://desertbus-game.org/
Windows users will probably need to grab the latest Java Runtime

Don’t blame us if it isn’t very fun. It isn’t supposed to be.

After a marathon eight-hour driving shift, James has earned our first point: the first time anyone in DB history has done so by himself!

We’re on our way, folks!

Somewhat unrelated, but this bizarre-possibly-gta-mod-looking game was just posted to Destructoid. Given that it pretty much encompasses what Desert Bus would look like today, I’m posting it for you.