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Depressurized?

We have been back a few weeks now and the cold of an early Canadian fall is a sharp contrast to the warmth of Black Rock. Our friends and our lives on the Playa feel so far away now. We have somehow settled back into the lives we were leading before, but I [...]

The Return To Society

Two weeks, sixteen states, nine-thousand kilometers, a life changing experience later and we are home. Burning Man had a profound affect on us and we are both still trying to process all of the ways that it changed us. Fifty hours of driving home has given us plenty of time to think and [...]

Mountains to Prairies

It is funny how at a certain point in any trip you switch into going home mode. We are now in the middle of the flat expanses of Kansas and driving hard to get home by Saturday night so that we will have Sunday to re-acclimatize and prepare for the world of work.
We spent [...]

Zion National Park

We climbed the last pass before Virgin, Utah last night at around 8.30pm and pulled off of the highway onto a dirt road that said ’scenic lookout’. We then quickly pulled off again onto a 4×4 track and climbed upwards until we found flat ground to camp.
As the sun rose the next morning, it shone [...]

Chiropractors, Laundry and Modena, Utah

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 [...]

Goodbye to Burning Man

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 [...]

The Temple of Honour

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 [...]

Pimms on the Playa

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! [...]

The Chai Revolution

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 [...]