in august of this year i'll be moving from SF to portland, OR. which means my relatively easy drive to BM is now going to become just a bit more arduous. no worries, though, it will just make it that much more rewarding when my tires finally hit the playa! my question is this: since i'll be coming f...

a very interesting response from larry. one point he raised that i found particularly salient was that of finances. as much as BM is about community, we all understand, either explicity or implicity, that those of us who attend the event are excluded from many of the aspects of, shall we say, "commu...

one of my goals for this year is to come up with a strategy for shading my tent, so that i might actually be able to (gasp) sleep in on occassion. does anyone have any experience in building basic, effective, wind-resistant tent shade structures for small to medium (2-4 person) tents?

thx,
eric