Blogs from Black Rock Desert, Nevada, United States, North America

ok, this blog will be a little different. Burning Man doesn't lend itself readily to the normal ways of doing things. So, here's some random memories and thoughts about the week. Oh, for those that don't know "The Playa" refers to the type of dusty desert surface. It's pronounced like plier and not like player. Dust Vast numbers of mechanically crazy glowing gigantic art cars crusing the desert picking up randoms A shipwreck in the desert complete with pier and various weird ship paraphernalia (pickled squid?) Wrangler fish swimming around luring trippers with glowing ball bait Daily hunt for a tasty coffee (always free) Camping with Couch Surfers - most from Seattle, but plenty from worldwide More dust So much art out on the playa. We are still finding pictures online of things we didn't see. ... read more

COPYRIGHT REMINDER All material on this web page, including photographs, is under copyright. Do not reuse without permission. To protect the non-commercial nature of the festival, the Burning Man organization does not allow commercial use of material from the festival without prior authorization (see the Burning Man website for details). COPYRIGHT REMINDER Today is the last day of Burning Man. I woke up pretty melancholy, because this amazing festival will soon be over. Looking down the street and seeing the absence of the man, the anchor point of Black Rock City, makes that plain enough. Center Camp For part of my last day, I wandered through the last major part of Black Rock City I haven’t seen, Center Camp. This camp ... read more

COPYRIGHT REMINDER All material on this web page, including photographs, is under copyright. Do not reuse without permission. To protect the non-commercial nature of the festival, the Burning Man organization does not allow commercial use of material from the festival without prior authorization (see the Burning Man website for details). COPYRIGHT REMINDER Today is my birthday. For better or worse, my age now has a zero on the end again. Ironically, Burning Man is one of the few places on earth where such a thing has little meaning. Most of the rest of the United States treats it as a major rite of passage. People consider birthdays like this as a time to reflect, and then get really depressed when reality doesn’t match up with dreams set a decade or two ago. Burners, by contrast, believe ... read more

COPYRIGHT REMINDER All material on this web page, including photographs, is under copyright. Do not reuse without permission. To protect the non-commercial nature of the festival, the Burning Man organization does not allow commercial use of material from the festival without prior authorization (see the Burning Man website for details). COPYRIGHT REMINDER Final Burning Man Preparation Today, I planned to get to Black Rock City. Unfortunately, I still had a long list of chores first. The first thing I had to do was separate out my stuff. Black Rock City is so dusty that the only way to protect things is to seal them in plastic bags for the duration of the festival. Everything I bought over the last few days will be used at the festival, but not everything I used on the trip before ... read more

It's that time of year again when the creative people of the world gather together in Black Rock City. We all take time out of our lives to put in the work of making sure we have enough food, water and crazy costumes to get us through the week. A massive stream of convergance happening left and right. This year we decided to have a pre burningman trip in Bishop to try our some bouldering at the Happys, it was a nice way to break up the drive and we got some sweet photos along the way. Fast forward to the next afternoon sitting in line patiently waiting to get into burning man...then all of a sudden, lightning in the distance and rain rain rain...all cars were stopped. At first this was frustrating, but all annoyances ... read more