There is only one single carriage road going out of Burning Man and this was the biggest ever at 60,000 people. We felt that we had seen the festival and wanted to beat the rush out. It was not too bad getting out at just two hours. The nice touch they do here is to move blocks of traffic in quarter mile sections so that you can turn your engines off and do something else albeit in a line of traffic. We were heading back to cheap Reno to recover, my chest was b...

I had a bad night coughing, and going home early was on the cards. However I felt that tonight was the big night and we havn't seen all the festival had to offer. The dust storm continued and Liz's moral needed a boost. Offers of alcohol were refused (must be bad). I decided that the chest problems would improve if I kept out of the dust and kept a mask on. I decided to start drinking at Jeronimos camp with the budda people - which did the trick. My chest had imp...

This was going to be a hot day well over 100F. The objective was to show Liz some of the art. Everyone was on about the topless cycle ride parade starting at the burning man. This fitted in with showing Liz the burning man and some of the art nearby. By the time we got there we had drunk 2 liters of water and needed more. Other art was far into the dessert where there was nothing to drink. We drifted back towards the tent to get a bag with lots of water. We neede...

The day after the night before, with the temperature around 90 - 100F in a tent with no shade, this was going to be a survival day. I was feeling better than Liz who never came out of the tent until night. I spent the day exploring the festival taking a zillion pictures and chating with people. For the early evening I went round to Jeronimos camp and was joined by the budda people. They had turned up with nothing, and were sleeping under a tarp that was gifted ...

We had to pile the car up with lots of water, food and of course alcohol for the Burning Man Festival in the Black Rock Dessert in Northern Nevada. Unlike normal festivals you cannot buy anything, you have to bring everything for survival in a hot dry dust swept wilderness. Going by the other festival goers in RVs, and huge cars packed to the hilt they weren't taking any chances. We were directed off road onto a white dried up lake bed surrounded by contrasting ...