We here at Desert Bus are really willing to suffer for the children. Rather than set an arbitrary cut-off point for our fundraiser, the length of the Desert Bus marathon is solely determined by the donations we receive, which means the more donated, the longer we play.

However, because it gets harder and harder to keep playing as the marathon goes on, the donations required to add another hour go up by 7% for every additional hour.

This means first hour costs $1.00, but the second hour costs $1.07. By the time we reach the 10th hour of busing, it costs $1.84 and we’ve made $13.82 in total donations. Therefore the first hours are quite cheap, but by the end of the event it costs several thousand dollars to keep the team going for another hour.

The donation total in the sidebar updates every minutes. For those of you who love information, you can track our progress with GladdyMedia’s excellent graphs that plot our donations over time.  In order to figure out how long we must play, we use a custom-built donation tracking system, but all your money is going directly to Child’s Play.

If you’re interested in how much it would take us to keep going for a week, here’s how the math breaks down.

Total Money $10.26 = 8 Hours (0.33 Days)

Total Money $102.07 = 31 Hours (1.29 Days)

Total Money $1070.80 = 64 Hours (2.67 Days)

Total Money $10 104.50 = 97 Hours (4.04 Days)

Total Money $100 952.11 = 131 Hours (5.46 Days)

Total Money $1 007 439.84 = 165 Hours (6.88 Days)

Total Money $10 052 477.33 = 199 Hours (8.29 Days)

Total Money $100 304 888.34 = 233 Hours (9.71 Days)

Total Money $1 000 853 692.41 = 267 Hours (11.13 Days)

Total Money $10 685 696 139.43 = 302 Hours (12.58 Days)

Total Money $106 623 089 429.58 = 336 Hours (14 Days)