Family Trip to Burning Man travel blog

We're now into the wee hours of Friday Night/ Saturday morning.

That's all of us with our bikes, in front of the fire...

We all went to see the giant heart.

Everone climbed inside. John and I are standing behind it to the...

We stopped at the Thunderdome to watch people bonk each other with...

Oooh the Synapse was very cool; this photo doesn't do it justice.

Darin's cool bike with the purple glow.

The naked Cubatron, with its wires and ping pong balls exposed.

Here's what it usually looked like.

And it changed colors and made thousands of ever-changing designs. "Oooh pretty...

This was a dance floor, where you danced on the donuts that...

Here's what it looked like without the camera's flash.

The orange glowy thing is an art car, the dome is Heart...

DeEtta dancing on the glo-donuts.

Me dancing on the glo-donuts.

Me and DeEtta dancing on the glo-donuts.

Darin crossing a bridge at Spanky's playground.

Today during my Ranger shift, I helped guard the Man while he...

I met this guy, who at night lights up the "wick man"...

This giant butterfly turned while people climbed on it. During the dust...

This man had "adopted" a yard gnome, and was setting up to...

Aerial shot taken today

Our camp is the pink circle at 8:30 and Chaos Street.

This is the most you could zoom in....and there we are!

Bringing box wine to the burn!

Darin and John waiting for the Man to burn.

Before the Man burned there was a huge fireworks display.

The big white blob is the Man.

We saw this fire-breathing dragon after the burn.

Here's a better shot of him.


The first set of night pictures are from Friday night, but it was during the wee hours.... so technically it was Saturday.

We did sleep. I know because I was supposed to be at my Ranger shift at 6am and I was 3 hours late. The nice thing about working BM is that there were so many Rangers, no one noticed or cared. I just showed up and told the shift lead I was ready to work, and he sent me out. No one asked me to, but I figured I should probably work my 6 hours, so I stayed 3 hours past shift change to make up for being late.

There was an aerial picture taken of Burning Man that day, and you can see it here: http://gigapan.org/gigapans/fullscreen/34311/

It's hi-resolution, so you can actually zoom in and see our camp. I zoomed in and took some screen shots, and they're included in the above pictures.

John cooked tonight....gnocci with tomato sauce. Works for me!

Tonight is the big night. Most Rangers are expected to work during the burn, but I wanted to be with my family tonight. Tomorrow, I'll work the Temple Burn. We had a lovely time. I had some video clips, but I think I lost them when the miniSD card on my phone crapped out. :(


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