Silver Burners—The Day Before

It’s getting real. The lobby in Harrah’s is a bizarre mixture of glassy-eyed gamblers drinking and smoking for hours on end and luggage toting burners dragging as much as they can carry. A buff bare-chested male, dressed in a vest, man-kilt, sturdy boots and heavy socks stood proud—carrying a spear like a great white hunter, […]

Silver Burners/Disappointments

Let’s just get all the anxieties out of the way before we leave. Teri worries her late flight will be too late and I worry my (previously broken) back won’t survive the mattress, so i get shots in my back. We peruse our lists. Have we forgotten anything? Have we packed too much? We perseverate […]

Silver Burners-We Have Been Placed!

“We have been placed!!! 4:45 and Jove. Co grata everyone. And they have us more space – 150×50 feet,” wrote our camp leader Sara, who has been to Burningman multiple times and appreciates the extra space in this city in the Black Rock Desert. Our camp sits on the outer rim of the horseshoe and […]

Silver Burners

We have been like little giggling schoolgirls ever since we began our plans to go to Burningman (google www.Burningman.org). Two gray-haired virgin burners with a penchant for costumes and design, watching every video we can possibly watch; reading all the “Jackrabbit Speaks” newsletters that arrive in our e-mail boxes; rabidly perusing Pinterest for ideas on […]