Archive for August, 2003


What is it?

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 correct because Burning […]

Blue people (and red, green and yellow)

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 […]

The Rockies

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 […]

Corn

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 back on […]

Off to Burning Man

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 take […]