So I went to the Burning Man festival last year and this year I’m back for round two. The difference is this year work has consumed massive amounts of my time. In the weeks leading up to the festival I was getting less and less sleep trying to get everything ready.
I put off my moving plans and dug deep do meet some deadlines (or just barely miss) and now it’s time to be disconnected from the world for a week.
Last year it was like a camping trip as I really didn’t know what to expect. Thus year I’m a little more prepared and I spent done time decorating my bike.
Now that it’s decked out and looking sharp I think her playa name will be wolf.
We headed out to Black Rock and got there around 11:00 at night… We stopped off in Gerlach to check out the stores that were there. Several people sell their goods out there to burners who forgot something or wanted to enhance their outfits for the burn. We both love to support small businesses so we got out and took a look. There was two business that stood out. The first was Ned who hand makes leather goggles that really fit with the burning man organic earthy look. They were very cool and Ned was a great guy who was down to earth and just had no ego at all. While we were chatting we also met a young lady who is on her spiritual journey. Her name was Latina and she was in San Francisco for a couple if years and then her friend interviewed and took her to the redwoods where she has continued to experience the world on her spiritual path. I love meeting people who actively work on their connection to others and their spiritual awareness. The love they have for others is always apparent in the way they live their lives and it’s a refreshing change of pace from the social isolation I see around me.
