Meet the Man
Meet the man. The burning man. I only had seen him on the first night, but at that time the Souk had not been opened and we could not actually get up to the Man. Since then, I’d only seen him from far, the one central figure of Burning Man and the pays, the one […] Read More
Night time on the playa
Just at nightfall, when everyone was still in the camp and getting ready, we got a playa gift of a special sort. A group of six or seven people came into our camp and started to sing a beautiful song about a love story to us. Just like that. It was their gift to the […] Read More
Welcome to our Nooner Coladas
Our second event in the book and our gift to the playa: Pina Coladas at Noon. I was on the team with Brandon to organize this, luckily he had taken over that, while I was still back in Seattle. So the ingredients were there, we just needed to get the place in order, and get […] Read More
Welcome home
The parallel reality of Burning Man is lowly sinking in, or opening the gates. I feel I’m arriving. Whatever you need in Black Rock City (BRC), they say ‘the playa will provide’. You’ll find a missing part to your art construction, water, drinks, music, a costume, a hug, an ear to listen to you, a […] Read More
Thunder and mud
I woke up with a bad hangover this morning. And mother nature was not in a good mood either. Thanks to my earplugs, I had slept through a massive thunderstorm going down over the playa. We had rain, hail, and a number of direct lightning strikes right on the playa. The energy in the center […] Read More
Mai Tais & Sarongs
The tree house was set up, now we were ready for our first party, and our first playa gift: Free Mai Tai drinks and Sarongs for the first 100 visitors. Welcome to the Tropical Treehouse! The first guests arrived at 8 o’clock sharp, probably as much in need for a drink as we were, after […] Read More
Tropical Treehouse
Already covered in dust, we arrived on the playa and hoped to find our camp site, to start setting our stuff up as quickly as possible. The location of our camp site wasn’t clear though, so we had to wait for the arrival of one of the camp organizers to identify our lot. We waited […] Read More
Driving into Black Rock City
We left our hotel in Reno at about 9 o’clock and headed out into the Nevada desert. First on a highway, then on a smaller road that brought us the roughly 200 km north into Black Rock desert. The desert was named after – surprise! – a big black rock that marks its northern end. […] Read More
Off to Reno
Last night I dropped off my three boxes of stuff, the duffle bag of dust-proof zip-locked clothes and my bike at Tom & Tim’s home at Duboce Park. This morning I got up early and headed over, to help Tim with a few things, mostly getting the dry ice into the food container without freezing off our fingers. When […] Read More
Shopping for the desert
Burning Man is only a few days away and I am busy assembling my stuff. I’ll get my tent from Brandon, the bike from Dennis, I still need an air mattress (and pump) some airtight containers (against the dust) and a few smaller things. I’m testing the bike tires right now and will go on […] Read More