On the Sunday evening after the man burns there is a much more sombre affair when the temple, built by artist David Best, and this year looking very like something you might find in Marakesh, is burnt. In the afternoon we rode out to it. It wasn’t the first time we had visited the amazing [...]

After the protest (which was one of the most fun things I have done so far), we all rolled back into camp and sat around the van whilst Glen made us his Mexican Pizza’s for lunch. He is a good guy to know, he loves to cook and he does wonderful things with pizza sauce! [...]

Today we became foot soldiers in the Chai Revolution. Burning Man is a no-vending event except for the coffee shop run by the organization in Center Camp. Everything else here is based on a gift society, even drinks at most every make-shift bar and art car. Whatever is needed, the community provides [...]

More and more people are arriving as we get closer to the burn on Saturday night. Our camp is now full of VW owners and others looking for a place to set up a base camp. As ever, Bruce made everyone feel welcome and we all had dinner together last night after late afternoon cocktails [...]

The amazing thing is that no matter what you set out to do here, you will never get there. Between any two points, there are so many distractions that any attempt at plans are futile. Every day so far, we have set out with the intention of learning to fire dance, but we [...]

Last night over coctails we tried to define the experience of Burning Man. To those who have not experienced it they cannot know it. It is about creating art and being art, seeing and being seen, expression and dissolution of social boundaries. Not matter what you say about Burning Man it is [...]

We haven’t posted a journal for a while because since we arrived on Monday at 1pm after a last dash to get booze, propane and a spare cooler before passing through the gates, we have been acclimatising to the Burn environment. Against all advice we took the dirt road to Burning Man from Winnemeuca, we [...]

We are now almost half way across Wyoming. It’s a beautiful sunny morning, we’re barrelling down the I-80, looking out over the Wyoming plains with the foothills of the Rockies to our left. We covered amazing ground yesterday, driving in four hours stints between breaks for gas, across Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska.
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We left Burlington at about 6:30 pm yesterday and crossed the border at Sarnia. By 3:30 am we were nearly at Chicago and could go no farther, so we pulled into a car pool parking lot and crawled into bed for a few hours of sleep. The sound of passing trucks got us [...]

We are just leaving for Burning Man so will be out of touch for a couple of weeks. Be sure you check out our new website set up just for the burn at http://burningman.prouse.org. We will try to keep it updated while we are there and will be uploading most of the pictures we [...]