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
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
Getting ready for the playa
Burning Man is only a bit over a week away. It’s really time to get ready, as much as I can organize it from here. Thank God I am going with an experienced camp. They’re all friends of my friend Brandon from San Francisco, and have gone a couple of times in the past years. […] Read More