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Burning Man Festival - Did anyone go? How was it?

Ron Mexico said:
Its kind of a burning man joke. It is a unique place and it is getting more and more attention which is partially unwanted. Tickets sell out within minutes now to 60,000 people so its not like burning man needs more people who want to go.

BTW for some reason Australia is the most represented country outside of USA at burning man.
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Well Ron we love a party. Burning Man isn't really my thing, I'm assuming its similar to Rainbow Serpent and Confest which are two hippie festivals we have here. The Serpent is a 5 day hippie trance music festival the thought of it makes me shudder. The stench of hippies in the sun for the best part of a week should come with a public health warning.

I normally go to Meredith Music Festival and Golden Plains every year but the line ups have sucked recently (Think I'm getting too old) Its on a private farm, you can bring your own booze, minimal police presence, plenty of first aid for people who've had too much. Its normally pretty chilled out. There's also a bunch of great folk festivals around and then there's Blues Fest and Splendor in Byron Bay but they're not BYO booze and the local constabulary is normally out in force, its a bit more mainstream and commercial.
 
Rubashov said:
Well Ron we love a party. Burning Man isn't really my thing, I'm assuming its similar to Rainbow Serpent and Confest which are two hippie festivals we have here. The Serpent is a 5 day hippie trance music festival the thought of it makes me shudder. The stench of hippies in the sun for the best part of a week should come with a public health warning.

I normally go to Meredith Music Festival and Golden Plains every year but the line ups have sucked recently (Think I'm getting too old) Its on a private farm, you can bring your own booze, minimal police presence, plenty of first aid for people who've had too much. Its normally pretty chilled out. There's also a bunch of great folk festivals around and then there's Blues Fest and Splendor in Byron Bay but they're not BYO booze and the local constabulary is normally out in force, its a bit more mainstream and commercial.
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Yeah, burning man is a fun party but there's a lot going on. They try to build a city for a week. That functions with the gifting system, radically self expression and self reliance. Some hippies but more just people out to let go have some fun and show off art and other skills.

Each camp provides something to the community. We run a bar on a busy street that is open the whole event and free. We also do LED workshops, run a tea House and have an art display out in the open desert.

It's a pretty relaxing week for me and helps me reset and also like humanity again. I also will probably stay drunkish for 10 days straight, thank God I almost never get hangovers.

But there are a lot of people out to party there from all around the world. **** tons of Australians that seem to love us Americans. People/women are pretty forward and to the point there with sex which caught me off guard more than once. I have some great stories over the years. Not sure many are appropriate for here.
 
As weird as it may seem to some, I've been close enough to the whole escape-to-the-desert movement that came with the revolution in Cali in the sixties I've probably seen it all. Living in the desert might be a different perspective than escaping to the desert tho.

There's the Turtle People who come in big rolling houses called recreation vehicles, high-tech campers with neat little packs of gear, little painted wagons with curtains on the windows, and even just Chevies or whatever. Jogging in the moonlight could be a sort of voyeuristic exercise.......

Snowbirds.... the folks who spend their summers in some alpine camp or Alberta and then their winters in RV villages outside of Vegas, have some astoundingly decadent lifestyle issues, too. Might make "Burning Man" seem civilized. When Social Security and the Government finally flop, they have no garden plots or even trees to use for firewood. But hey, one day in the hot desert sun without enough water is probably the least troubled way out. No need to smash a car to crack your skull. You just get faint-hearted and weak, and sorta black out and you're done, and after a few days your bones are picked clean and scattered in the scrub.

I've never been interested in the party life. Probably won't retire before checking out for good.
 
Ron Mexico said:
I officially won burning man this year. It was a great honor and hope to repeat it again next year.

Whelp, I tried to post some pictures but just kept getting errors. So oh well, your loss.
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I didn't realize it was a competition?
 
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