Burning Man 6 I woke up and stretched some achy bones.The ground was starting to get to me. After a few moments of deliria, I began to hear a pretty accurate rendition of Beethoven's Moon Light Sonata while lying on the floor of my tent.It was being played on a slightly out of tune piano somewhere near by. Stepping out of my tent and into the sunshine, I fixed myself some breakfast.I cut up a few apples and heated some water for tea on my propane stove. ...

Burning Man 5 Jenna finished playing her last song as I sat under her pink inflatable shade structure.I said thank you for the music and she hugged me.I wrote down my email address for her and then I was off into the 9:00 plaza. The sun was still high in the sky as I road to the Esplanade.I looked down the 9:00 plaza and the road that went directly to the Man at the center of Black Rock city.I realized that despite all I had done so far at the festiva...

Burning Man 4 I rolled over as a strong breeze shook the outside of my tent fabric.Sleep that night felt a bit rough.I had some very intense dreams that night, which left me exhausted in the morning. It was Monday, and Burning Man had finally begun.The city was completely packed now.The traffic on Chaos Street was the heaviest I had seen yet. I figured I would unlock my car and grab my guitar. I had a song idea in my head that I wanted to get down.You ...

Burning Man 3 I woke up and saw the sun about 4 fingers over the mountains.Time is a fluid thing out here because of the lack of clocks. People just use what they have. In this case the original clock.The crew uses this method of time keeping a lot to schedule group meetings, so I began to use it too.It was refreshing not to be tied to a watch fo once. I looked around and saw that more and more people were packing in.There were probably thousands in ...

Burning man 2 I woke up the next morning and opened my eyes to the blue roof of my tent.There was a fine layer of dust on everything I had including me.I stepped outside and adjusted my eyes to the unfiltered sunshine.Saw people around me busy at work setting up tents and shade structures. The city was growing before my eyes. I looked right and a man pulled in next to my tent with an RV.We shot the s*** for a minute and he looked dow...