We here at Desert Bus would like to take a moment to recognize one of our very generous food and drink sponsors, Victoria Pie Co.  As most of your know, a lot of the Desert Bus crew are stuck here for many MANY hours during the run and, as as it turns out, we need food and drink to survive (who knew, right?).  We couldn’t make it through this event without the generous support of sponsors willing to provide us with the sustenance and energy we need!

 

Victoria Pie Co is Victoria’s first and only pie shop, located in the Victoria Public Market in the Hudson building at 1701 Douglas St (corner of Fisgard and Douglas).  They proudly to use local ingredients that are sustainable and have positive environmental impacts.

This year, Victoria Pie Co have generously donated gift cards to the crew so that we can keep ourselves fueled with delicious locally made pies! Yum!

Thank you, Victoria Pie Co, from all of us here at Desert Bus!

Eleven years, over a thousand hours, a lot of tears and hugs, and oh my god so much sweat. We have hit $4,000,000.00 in lifetime donations.

Your generosity blows us away every year, but we have no time to stop. We need to keep bussing for the kids!

We just wrapped up the call from Aaron Forsythe from Wizards RnD and what better way to keep the bus rolling then with a donation drive. This lot will include the HASCON exclusive cards from earlier this year, From the Vault: Lore (complete with Jace, the Mind Sculptor) and the UNRELEASED From the Vault: Transform.

Any donations of $7.14 or multiples thereof until 5:45 PM PST will enter you for a chance to win.

Hey all you Pin People, hey all you Pin People won’t you listen to meeeeee? Penny Arcade has generously donated this massive board (board may or may not be included) of over 300 Pinny Arcade Pins.

Any donations of $7.77 or multiples thereof until 4:30 PM PST will enter you for a chance to win this insane Pin lot.

We welcome back Legacy Books Press as a sponsor for Desert Bus 2017.

Legacy Books Press is a Kingston, Ontario based publisher that specializes in historical non-fiction and the Classics. They are dedicated to exploring the interesting corners of both modern and ancient history that tend to get overlooked.

Thank you Legacy Books Press for your continued support of Desert Bus for Hope.

We showed off Desert Bus VR a bit earlier in the week when Randy Pitchford called in. The dashboard looks a little bit sparse and I think you can help us out with that. Until 5:30 PM PST we are running an art challenge to create a Sticker that will go somewhere on the dash of the VR bus.

There’s going to be room for 5 Stickers so here’s what we need from you. Please submit your idea for a sticker as a file at a maximum of 1024×1024 in a hi-res JPG, PNG, or Vector file. Keep the designs clean and copyright free! We will select 9 finalists who will then be entered into a donation drive to pick the top 5.

Send all entries to contest@desertbus.org with the subject line “DBVR Sticker Challenge” and include the name you’d like to be used if you are selected.

 

 

Aaron Forsythe will be calling into Desert Bus on November 19th at 4:00pm (PST)

Aaron Forsythe is the Director of R&D for Magic: The Gathering and a former pro-tour player. As a member of R&D over the past 10 years, Forsythe has been both a designer and developer for Magic: The Gathering and his design credits include Magic 2010 through Magic 2013 and Planechase. As a developer, his work can be seen on many Magic releases including the original Ravnica block, Zendikar, and the Modern Masters set.

Have a question for Aaron? Leave it in the comments below!

Today we started the day with the starting of a very…odd…dino cult?

But Dawn Guard quickly thwarted that and dispatched the dinosaur, NEVER TO RETURN TO THIS REALM!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We had lots of dance parties, Andrew WAS driving after all, and we played Family Feud.

Then Liz came for her shift, in all her glory!

And brought all the insanity that usually follows…

And a wonderful call-in from Jenn and Trin, who bestowed upon us their friendly wisdom.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So stick around for more fun, love, tears, and generic nonsense!

Do you love Overwatch? Do you need a way of keeping your pants up? Well we’ve got the thing for you!

Donate $6.12, or multiples thereof, before 2:15pm PST to win this amazing McCree belt buckle, for all your favourite Mother Friends!

We here at Desert Bus would like to take a moment to recognize one of our very generous food and drink sponsors, Truffles Catering.  As most of your know, a lot of the Desert Bus crew are stuck here for many MANY hours during the run and, as as it turns out, we need food and drink to survive (who knew, right?).  We couldn’t make it through this event without the generous support of sponsors willing to provide us with the sustenance and energy we need!

Now, it’s important to point out that while Truffles did not technically donate their product, but we’d still like to thank them for their impeccable service and quality of their food.  Truffles has provided hot meals to the crew of Desert Bus for the past four years and every year it’s been a life saver.  We absolutely could not conceivably put on an event this large with so many cast and crew members without feeding them proper, healthy meals and Truffles has done that job wonderfully.

From all of us here a Desert Bus, Thank you Truffles!