Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 22:20:15 -0800
Reply-To: Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
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From: Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
Subject: Re: Burning Man Tickets
In-Reply-To: <DNEFLHPPMKKCMAEKKDCCKEMGCNAA.jhecht@alum.mit.edu>
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There is a van/bus camping group.
I didn't stay with them last year but it looked pretty interesting. A
little further out from camp center so a bit quieter. That is important.
The two bad things about the playa are the dust, bad, and the techno
music[?] BAD, and omnipresent.
Without the techno I'd go back in a heartbeat. It's not Berkeley in the 60s
[I know I lived in Berkeley in the 60s, I think?] but its got an energy
that's pretty light and fun and lots and lots of imagination with the effort
to back it up. [Example: Middle of the playa area, perhaps 1/2 mile from
Black Rock city, someone set up a gate. Arm came down like a railroad
crossing gate, there was a gate house. The construction labeled GATE. So
of course people who happened to go out there for some reason or another
would line up, someone would raise the gate and one person would go through.
Gate comes down, next person steps up, gate comes up, person goes through.
And so on. Nothing around, no road, no fence, no nothing. I loved it!]
So go and enjoy. The fun is fun and the serious stuff, of which there is
plenty, is ... well, neat, I guess that describes it.
Mike
On 3/1/04 6:37 PM, "Joy Hecht" <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU> wrote:
> Are there Vanagon folks who meet up at Burning Man, camp together, etc.?
>
> I have never been, and have been toying with the possibility of going this
> year - an interest that was revived by the discussion on the list,
> notwithstanding the criticisms. I suppose it's getting bigger because of
> people like me, who know little about it, but have heard just enough to
> think this sounds like something worth experiencing if I have a chance. I
> can see where growing pains would change what might have once been an
> indigenous event into a tourist attraction, and I can see where I might be
> on of those tourists. I'm not sure I shouldn't go because of that, though.
>
> I'd be interested in hearing more, and hearing from others on the list who
> might be there this August.
>
>
>
> Joy
>
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Joy Hecht
> and Matilda, 1989 Burgundy Vanagon
> and Henrietta, sad-eyed orangutan who waltzes with Matilda and me
> and Bicycle and Kayak, who ride on Matilda
> and my 2002 green Prius, waiting for our return from the vanadventures
> For musings about life and the vanadventures:
> http://users.rcn.com/jhecht/gypsy
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
> Of Jeffrey Schwaia
> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 3:55 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Burning Man Tickets
>
>
> I understand your frustration and opinion. I've been to BM for many years
> and have seen the changes as well. BM has experienced major growing pains.
> And I agree that the weekend of the burn is probably the least desirable
> days to be there. But every year I meet great people and make new friends
> that I almost always see the next year. I don't let the idiots that are
> there to oogle or impress bother me, I find far worse on the highways every
> day.
>
> <snip>
>
>
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