Archive for the 'Burning Man' Category


And so the pace quickens

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 […]

Feeling Blue

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 […]

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 […]