April 5, Barstow, California.
The circus is parked on a shopping mall parking lot hardly bigger than the circumference of the tent.
The tent is a little more than 16, 000 feet square feet, extending to some 20, 000 if you count the area covered by the anchor stakes and the area we had to park in is probably about 30, 000 square feet. In it you had to fit seven double-load trucks and eight trailers, keeping in mind safety rules and access.
Under pouring rain and after driving some two and a half hours of a dangerously wet mountain desert road from Twentynine Palms last night, Fridman somehow managed to do that. I waited for him until four, then went to bed. The baby woke me up at seven.
Exact dimensions of the Circus Chimera tent:
147 feet from sidewall to sidewall (or 45 meters)
180 diameter from stakeline to stakeline
210 diameter from anchor stake to anchor stake
Total square feet inside the tent: 16, 365
Maximum seating: approximately 1,600.
The tent is designed and built by Canobbio, an Italian company among the best in the business.
Setting up the tent (February 9.)
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