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It’s located in Black Rock, Nevada, a barren spot sixty or so miles north of Reno, in a barren place of desert and low elevation. 

 

Every year, for six days prior to Labor Day, the Burning Man event takes place.

 

I’m going to go this year.  Evidently it’s wild as hell.  My high school buddy lives in San Francisco and I’m going to hang with him. 

 

A few hundred thousand people converge on it initially, with numbers growing, of course, over the holiday weekend.  They build sculpture, paint bodies, watch bodies, become watched bodies, and there’s a lot of other stuff, apparently, that I don’t know yet, ‘lest I’d write here. 

 

There’s a ‘naked women’ parade with a thousand participants.  Thought I’d share that.  Would this occur in Midwest or Eastern Plains of US?  (or South or New England?)  Nope.  These are California people. 

 

The layout is a grid, N-E-S-W with basically a circular network of roads to orient one from place to place, as there’s no particular geographical or topographical features to help guide one from place to place.

 

All take food in, and all remove trash and debris, leaving only footprints, taking only memories.

 

In mid-fall, ’07, I’ll write and share profusely about it.

 

At www.burningman.com , there’s some explanatory text (a-la Southern California) and

700 or so photos archived in past years’ event.

 

 phil