Yes YES YESSS! Ticket is got. I'll dust off my goggles, pick up some bacon and start walking.

Painted bike, goggles, and hood of my car bright blue!

I'm working on a degree in Art(focus in crafts) as well as a degree in Biology. Currently, I've got two sign-twirling jobs and also work at a pizza place. My newest hobby is aquascaping, the art of aquarium design. And all that stuff eats my days up, but I'm making time for my first burn!

Awesome! Thanks for the help folks. Catching a ride from Gerlach sounds like the way to do it. We were thinking of bringing bike trailers to tow our stuff with so lugging it around shouldn't be too bad.

Woo! Can't wait!

A friend of mine is going backpacking the week of the burn and is willing to transport my girlfriend and I to and from the playa, but I'm not sure what the policy on drop offs is. Has anyone ever gone this way?

Thanks!

Treat landmarks as temporary for navagational purposes. How about a big flag/banner over my group's site? I've heard a lot of the fun is in getting lost, so I might just skip that, heheh. We're going to build 2 or 3 of these great domes: http://www.fetchaphrase.com/dome/index.html and do them up as...

Thanks guys! I've done my share of desert camping, but does anyone have recommendations specific to the playa?

Hey folks, this'll be my first trip to the playa. :) I'm 19, San Diego native, in Santa Cruz at the moment for school, but gonna stay home next year. Can't wait to get out there and have the experience of a lifetime! :D

A newfound friend of mine mentioned that he attended Burning Man last year, to this I queried, "What's Burning Man?" And from that moment on, I have been completely enthralled by everything that has happened on the playa. For years, I've been searching for exactly this: a utopia of the self. Burning...