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 for free, everything […]

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 have never […]