First time burner from LA :)

[dandelion]

Hi there! It's so nice to meet you all!

I'm beyond excited to attend BM this year. I've got most things on my supplies list crossed off, I'm almost ready to go! Just now getting to sketching my costumes. I'm looking to possibly camp with some sort of awesome girl troupe. I'm a graphics designer and also love working on creative stuff with my hands, so if there's an art installation you need help with - perfect!

- D

[illy dilly]

Welcome Dandelion!
Do you picture your self as


OR



Thanks for coming to eplaya! Learn lots!



There will be a quiz at the MnG!

[Elderberry]

Hey there, welcome to eplaya!

Have questions? Read this first: http://www.burningman.com/first_timers/
Everybody on eplaya is always excited to help first timers; but in sympathy for some of us old timers, please get your required reading out of the way before posting. As hard as it is to rein in the the excitement and enthusiasm, and as unbelievable as it might seem, most of your questions have already been asked and answered, if you just take a moment to read.

Now, let the adventure begin!

[dandelion]

Thanks for tip

And yes, I should put up a nice little fancy avatar like the rest of you folks.

[Savannah]

Hi Dandelion!

[VeganChoirGirl]

Hi. And welcome. I'm in LA, too. It's nice to be so relatively close to the playa.

[mudpuppy000]

Howdy neighbor! Welcome!

[illy dilly]

Thanks for tip

And yes, I should put up a nice little fancy avatar like the rest of you folks.

You don't have to if ya don't want to!

I was trying to be all fancy and philosophical.
Do you fill more like "go with the breeze" or "right and sunny" type.
(I don't try it very often, and there is a reason, lol)

[dandelion]

Lol i definitely feel like the fuzzy fluffy free one right now

[paulagraciela]

Im a first time burner from LA too lookin for others to explore with would you be down to meet up sometime/somewhere fun?!

[illy dilly]

Lol i definitely feel like the fuzzy fluffy free one right now

Hell yeah! Go with the wind, let it take ya where ever it does!


But do us a favor and don't spread your seed all over the playa!

[dandelion]

@ illy dilly - Lol of course! No seed spreadin.I wonder how much trash has populated around BRC from all the previous years.
@ paulagraciela - Yo! Yeah, I'm down. I'm on the west side, Marina del Rey/Venice area.

[Savannah]

The playa itself is pretty damned clean, between the efforts the good citizens put in during/at the end of the event, and the months-long work of the Department of Public Works (there is also a trash fence, and a mechanism for scanning for lost rebar, etc). Which is not to say there aren't a few errant tutus blowing like tumbleweeds several miles out . . . and some knaves with poorly secured loads atop their vehicles (or just dirty ways) who dump their trash in inappropriate places accidentally or purposefully.

It helps to never let things hit the ground, and to bring trash bags & gloves (even keep a small bag in your packpack) so you can pick up as you go . . . and make a really good final sweep.

[illy dilly]

@ illy dilly - Lol of course! No seed spreadin.I wonder how much trash has populated around BRC from all the previous years.

Like Savannah said, the place is pretty clean. I'd say it is cleaner when we leave than it was when we got there. Other campers that use the playa all year round are not held the the strict LNT plans that Burning Man is.
I bet folks have huge bonfires and don't clean them up.

Shit, I know in CO people beat hell out of the Great Sand Dunes every year. Only in the last 5-7 years have the rules changed about what you're allowed to do down there. But, because of its elevation it also gets wiped clean every year by feet of snow, then the rapid spring melt and river that forms at the North East side.