Posted on 08/27/2014 12:16:06 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
Hundreds of travelers on the road to Burning Man in their quest for oneness with nature and celebration of self-expression on a peaceful playa in northern Nevada's desert didn't expect to spend their first night in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart or Reno resort casino.
But most were taking it in stride and were largely optimistic — as so-called "Burners" are apt to be — that the gates to the counterculture event would reopen Tuesday after rare rain showers in the Black Rock Desert turned the ancient lake bottom to a muddy quagmire the day before...
...Dozens of RVs and vans bound for Burning Man were parked at the Wal-Mart at the Three Nations Plaza, and nearly a hundred more across the street by sundown at the Grand Sierra Resort along U.S. Interstate 80 just east of downtown Reno....
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Did you say you had friends going to this event? I hope they’re okay!
Unless there’s been a tragedy, I’ll snicker a little at the thought of highly cultured New Yorkers in a Reno Walmart.
Typical left, working in an insult against the favorite store of conservatives and middle America.
Dead Heads meet Pyromaniacs?
Living nearby Burning Man, my observation is that Burning Man is not a magnet for the highly cultured New Yorker.
That may well be so, but it’s an accurate description of Miss Marmelstein’s social circle.
Nothing says counterculture like driving in $50-100k+ RVs and stopping off to stock up on supplies at MEGLO MART.
Just curious: Given my observations of the ‘wake’, or ‘fallout’ if you will, of typically-liberal gatherings (Earth Day, Zer0 inauguration, etc.)...”garbage/litter” is what I’m getting at...
...has anyone documented what the desert looks like after one of these ‘events’?
Too bad the rain couldn’t have happened two days later...
from the story
“Barbara Quintanilla of Houston said the rain delay was the least of their worries in an RV with friends who didn’t initially know whether the camper used diesel or regular gas, made a wrong turn out of Texas and ran over a sign post. Their destination is “Planet Earth,” she said”
i think the dominant philosophy here seems to be airhead.
They are “supposed” to take everything (including garbage waste) with them.
The local Dhim precinct captain, I’m guessing.
I read somewhere that there is a BurningBush section of BurningMan reserved for Orthodox Jews.
I love the desert. I love hiking. I love brutal, hot temperatures.
But the idea of sharing space with a bunch of partying hippie dopeheads and earth-cookies would truly be my idea of hell on earth. I’d put Burning Man only ‘slightly’ ahead of Ferguson, MO as my idea of an enjoyable vacation destination.
We not so highly cultured. Just a 70 year old NYC avant garde theater company on the loose in the desert. My husband is their Executive Director. Some of the art installations are amazing.
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