Thx folks. After last year's mess, we bought our own box truck, so we're no longer looking for a reliable rental. If you have a story about Budget overbooking you, let me know. Our plan is to tell the court, and Budget, that overbooking needs to stop so it doesn’t happen to Burners in the future. ho...

In 2015 and in 2016, Budget unilaterally cancelled my truck rental reservation just days before we were to leave for the Playa. My campmates and I are now in a small bit of litigation against Budget, and we are wondering if this same thing has happened to other Burners in the past 5 years. If so, we...

5. More power to you if you seem younger than your calendar age! But there's a lot of energy in the young-at-birth-cert, and I like that, too. I live my life, and I like to do it around people from a range of ages. I think without a lot of kids --which basically means the ravers-- BM runs a serious ...

Five reasons to love ravers on the playa 5. Ravers keep us young. The people who build most of the city are well into their 30s, many in their 40s, 50s, and 60s; I'm approximately 50. The ravers are way younger than the rest of us. 4. Ravers keep us beautiful. I spend months building (what I think ...