When we started Desert Bus in 2006, $5000 for Child’s Play was our pie in the sky, wouldn’t it be cool goal. Now 6 hours away from the start and $5000 is already rapidly shrinking in our rear view mirror. I can already see that this is going to be an amazing event.

Also, I’m not going to spoil anything about what prizes and auctions we have coming up, but can tell you that our server guy, Ashton, is having to modify the backend because it is taking too long to display them all.

Thanks to a steady increase in traffic from all your support, we have now crested $4000 of suffering and we haven’t even started yet. With 83 hour on the clock, James, Morgan and I are each fully on the hook for 24 hours of driving. Bill, however, still has a leisurely eleven hours, and Kathleen’s valuable time hasn’t even been touched yet … so we’ve got some work to do for maximum suffering potential. If we do well enough, we could be looking at second shifts.

Thanks, everyone for your support, and send in some 4k milestone pics, if you are so inclined–I’ll append them to this post as they arrive.

Lades and gentlemen, I’m proud to present the first milestone image for this year’s Desert Bus! Wow–$3000, and we’re still over a day out from starting! Here’s to successful tech nights (complete with technical difficulties–but that’s what they’re for!)

If you have an image you’d like to send us to celebrate a fundraising milestone, please send it to milestones@desertbus.org.

Now stop asking me to update the blog!

The wonderful achievement graphics just keep rolling in guys! Wow!

Yes, 63000; we’ve come a long way, baby.