Got some photos posted. Just the good ones from my roll and a half of film. You'll find them in the album creatively called Burning Man 2006. There will be more as my campers send me theirs, so keep checking back. And as long as I was in there, I posted a very few Lola pictures that I snapped to use up the film. Using up film, boy there's something I haven't done in a while, and one of those things that the next generation will consider a quaint relic of the past like cranking a phone or getting up to change the channel. But I digress...
Yes, we had a great time! We camped next to my friend David, former president of GBFS, and a bunch of his very nice friends. Our camp was me and Morgan, Paige, and friends Maggie, Angie, and Lily. Overall everyone got along splendidly, we ate better food and more of it than usual (including chicken tortilla soup, Indian food, and tortellini...we were offered fresh oysters even!), no major injuries that couldn't be fixed with duct tape. Morgan and I tended to fade early (relatively speaking) and go sleep in our Westfalia long before those who got back to camp, um, around 5am, on a few occasions.
I think I'm getting too stressed, old, and parental for this. There is talk around maison Tiar about this being our last burn for a while. It's starting to feel a bit routine. Just the absence of bad isn't enough to make me want to keep going, and the amount of work, money, energy, etc. that goes into it doesn't return enough on that large of an investment.
Highlights? Randomly running into Jeff Johnson in the middle of 40,000 burners (and that's happened with him before)...the Belgian project that literally took my breath away the first night we saw it...the guy in the pink singlet dancing all "militaristically" with a toy AK-47 to Matisyahu's "Jerusalem"...weather so pleasant I barely touched the warm clothing I brought expecting very cold nights...not living out of a tent in the dirt...kind neighbors with jumper cables and chilled chardonnay...excellent shade, carpet, and general camp layout and best location ever...nice gifts like pressed pennies, little knives, and artistic magnets....fun in the street like squirting passers-by and playing ladder golf.
Well I suppose I've droned on long enough about our little desert festival. Oh yeah, for those who were wondering, wifi connectivity out there was spotty at best, and I only was able to check email once, and it was unbelievably challenging. Should have seen me out there, standing with the laptop raised over my head trying to get a signal....ridiculous.
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