If It Feels Good Do It

In the morning when I woke up, I was dirty. I wanted to go to the bathroom, but there were a bunch of things I needed to do before that.
First I would “shower” with my tarp and modified water carton. Immediately after was the only time I was really clean, so I’d put in my [...]

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Part of burning man was a huge party. Believe it or not, I had no problem with that.
The biggest surprise I had when I was out there was the amount of art for art’s sake that I saw. And the art wasn’t attached to a huge ego-trip, either. People just made art in the hopes [...]

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What I’m about to write is a little weird.
It was night. I was out on the town with my neighbors. I was already feeling good and doing it when Petey gave me some hits off his joint.
We walked around on the esplanade. I felt like I was going to fall over. But I didn’t. I’m [...]

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The day of the burn I woke up late. I had gotten high with my neighbors, and stayed out until after dawn. But more on that later since I’m writing this backwards.
I took a “shower.” At burning man they gave us nothing except the right to use a portapotty. Everything else we had to bring [...]

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The drive out of the playa to leave burning man was intense. Or not, depending on how I looked at it.

To get from our camp back to a paved road was approximately three miles. It took us more than four hours. We were caught in one of three major dust storms during the week. But [...]

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SOUTH OF HEAVEN
Saturday we had all sorts of plans. We would read some online Burning Man literature and practice building our shelter.
Instead Justin and I just shot guns and rolled stuff off of cliffs.

Generally we did absolutely nothing constructive whatsoever.
Oh, and at night we drove my truck to a more remote area of Justin’s parent’s [...]

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