The weather for the most part this Spring has been warm and quite dry so the first weekend after we got back from France we headed for Buffalo crag with Tim and Lisa and did one of our first outdoor climbs this year. Actually, for Lisa it was her first ever outdoor climb, and, as [...]

Just after lunchtime we found ourselves in Ely, Nevada, Elevation 7500ft (the cities in the SW all seem to have their elevation written on the signs instead of their population as in Canada. In many cases their elevation is probably a higher number). We stopped for gas and to ask in a local saloon (where [...]

We woke pretty early to find that half the camp had already packed and left either immediately after the temple burn, or very first thing this morning. Glen was just on his way out and we said a hasty good-bye. We did our best to shake out the worst of the dust storm that happened [...]

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! [...]

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 [...]

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.
The [...]

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 [...]

Since this is the inaugural entry to the Burning Man website, I thought I’d better add a few words.
The van is indeed stuffed to the hilt with our gear. If I didn’t know that the Burning Man web site pre-existed our plans to travel to the festival, I would genuinely believe that this was [...]