Hello þettareddas!
I'll be visiting Iceland for the Sonar festival, and few days beyond. Long time Burner, I've been looking around for any Icelandic Burners to visit with while in Reykjavik. Drop me a note if you're open to a visit!

Sard Rocklifter aka Fireclown

Hiya Splendid! I will be in Reykjavik next month for the Sonar festival. I'm a long-time Burner, and would be happy to meet up for coffee and a chat about Burning Man if you're in Reykjavik. 2016 will be my 22nd Burn, so I may have some perspective to offer ;) Drop me a note if you'd like to meet up...

Cherrywood branch, bent and knobbly, with the bark still on. Grey rubber tip. Lost on 5:30 between E and K... I went right back and it was gone. Any help for me? Thanks.

gunsmith wrote:
don't read this book alone

I picked up a copy last week and have been loving it. Some crazy tales in there, and being familiar with the area gives the stories that much more impact. Good stuff.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20070817/sc_space/aurigidmeteorshowerpeaksseptember1;_ylt=AkAQrArIKNRLRMIpaImJ8UoE1vAI More astronomical treats for us! Looks like this is a special fall, a rare occurance of this meteor shower. It's always an amazing night sky on the playa, but this year's holds wonder...

Omnidexter wrote:I love the synchronicty of this. Is anyone planning an event to coinside with the eclipse?

Heh, ya made me laugh.
I know what you mean, lining up the timing and all, but the fact that this is happening during the week of the event is event enough for me!

http://kapilina.tribe.net

Kapilina is the Hawiian contingent. I have friends involved with that group. Though I don't know who it is that you're looking for, if you're still looking I'd suggest posting on their Tribe page... you might have some luck there!

Here we go again, it's almost playa-time! I want to thank again all of you whose suggestions were so helpful to me last year. I found that the days were hard but not impossible, and the nights were glorious. Physical labor during the day was not very manageable. Lucky for me I have a great support s...

I was wondering just the other day if we were gonna get a dose of Bootie on the playa... I can't wait!

PlayaPetal, AntiM,
Thank you so much for your encouragement and for relating experiences. I'm feeling a lot better this week, overall, and have started laying plans for Burning Man 06.

Thank you all for your suggestions and support. PrincessCharming, I really appreciate your candid reflections on dealing with your own self. I think a lot of the things you mention, learning about fatigue, learning to monitor myself, are the things I'm going to need to get a handle on to get along o...

:? So here I am, a veteran of eleven burns, many volunteer hours, a fully integrated playa life... and newly diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Part of my proactive assault on this disease has to include gathering information on how to deal with it in the desert, if I get to deal with it in the dese...

I've come here with some mail gone astray... On burn night, a friend of mine was handed some mail to deliver, by a weary BRC post office delivery fellow who could not find the addressees. We really meant to get it delivered! We did! Burn night came, as it always does, and the mail went by the waysid...

I've come here with some mail gone astray... On burn night, a friend of mine was handed some mail to deliver, by a weary BRC post office delivery fellow who could not find the addressees. We really meant to get it delivered! We did! Burn night came, as it always does, and the mail went by the waysid...

huh, funny. This year I got my period about 10 days early, on the playa. However, this is the only time this has happened in many years of Burning Man. I can see how stress and environment could affect body systems, surely.

Xavier wrote:I didn't mind the new configuration except that they took the streets out, which made finding my camp in the dark and giving directions a little tricky.

What do you mean, "took the streets out"??? There were streets all over the place?!?

I would agree with Mars. I loved our neighborhood theme camps, having a Ranger outpost and medical help nearby. I feel like it made home easier to find, and provided more to do locally, so we weren't forever running down to the Esplanade or Center camp. Keep the neighborhood plazas going strong!

... i missed the presence of radio stations, a lot. for some attendees, pirate radio is their art, and the lack of pirate radio broadcasters sanitized the atmosphere. ... i was really upset by the decision (to ban pirate stations), and i wish that bmorg could explore a legal avenue to fighting the ...

I very much appreciate the post retelling the story of Cathy's death on the playa. All citizens of BRC should see this, and realize that we are all so fragile. Though Cathy's death was a tragic accident, she was lucky to be surrounded by her friends and held close by the love in their hearts as she ...