We were loading the truck for Burning
Man. TDM's wife and daughter dropped by to say "Hi!"
Yup. We stopped for a few minutes. Then
we went back to packing the truck.
Not too long after this picture was
taken we headed for BURNING MAN.
We were among the first people to use
the new bridge across the Carquines Straights. It was completely bump
free!
I'm not sure why we stopped in Auburn, but we only stopped long enough
to use the bathroom and meet a native or two.
It was easy to tell some of the cars going to Burning Man. The packed
to the gills cars with suspensions bottoming out because of all the
water and bikes on the back were surely going to the playa.
The time stamp on the original picture
of the sign at the edge of the playa was 12:12, so we hit fairly close
to our planned schedule for that. Unfortunately we had to spend some
time waiting in line before we got to the ticket gate.
The greeters made
everybody that was new to Burning Man ring the bell before they left
the gate. Among our crew, Barry and Nancy had to do it. I only got my
license to photograph (#2442) in time to get Nancy from this angle.
My plan for Burning Man was to tell
people I was "running for Green Man on a platform of 'we need to stop
voting for oil companies at the gas pump'." Then I was going to offer
them a sticker "to help me get the word out." The takers I offered to
take pictures of so they could "find themselves in cyberspace on my
website." Those that liked that idea are on these pages.
These were people
living in neighboring campsites. The woman in the black halter top
above
gave me the blue shirt you see me in above. It was recycled clothing,
meaning she had gotten it and printed the burning man on it. Talking to
her later, I found
out that she is really into clothing. Her campsite was next to ours,
but we didn't see much of each other until near the end of the event.
Then I found out that she was really neat.
There was a sprinkling of applause
around Black Rock City at the end of the dramatics as the sun set
behind that mountain.
Not so long after the sun set, the moon
rose...
These were playa beings exploring that
came by our campsite. I don't think I did much wandering around that
day. Too much unpacking that needed to be done.
After I got my campsite set up I went
to bed. I woke up a few hours later and took some pictures of the
eclipse.
You can see that MrLiver's camera
(Screen shot on right) had a better zoom feature than mine. Either way,
the moon was clearly in an eclipsed state.