Every year thousands of items are lost (and found!) on the Playa. We volunteers at Playa Info try our best to reunite items with their owners, and there are steps you can take pre- and on-playa to help!
Prevention is the best cure. Consider putting a label or a luggage tag on anything precious. Include name, phone number, email address and playa camp location. Write up your info on a sheet of paper and take a photograph with your camera, and leave image as the first one in your photo set. Take address labels with you to BRC so you can tag everything you forgot or didn't think you needed to tag. The mighty wind can whisk away the most essential items, including tarps and sleeping bags. Label everything! Consider leaving very precious items at home: your childhood bike, your great-grandmother's ring, or that special item of clothing that means so much to you. Finally, check your ID! Many passports and driving licenses are sent back to the owner every year, only to be returned because the owner has moved on. Write your current address in permanent ink on your ID.
While at the event, turn in found items to Playa Info in Center Camp. If you're on the move and not headed 'downtown', roaming Playa Info Ambassadors are happy to collect found items and return with them to Center Camp. Flag down the cyclists/pedestrians with the blue flags marked "i" for 'Info'. We keep up return efforts long after we leave the playa (until ticket sales begin for next year), so don't despair if you don't get your stuff back right away... we work hard and keep trying to reunite, because it feels sooooo good.
See you on the playa!
