Beth on holiday

Beth (lil sister) is off to her annual pilgrimage to Burning Man. It is a gathering in the middle of nowhere in Black Rock Desert in Black Rock City, Nevada. I would best decribe it as a modernday woodstock but without the music and a lot more organization.



They gather together and embrace the stranger for a week. There are theme camps and those that just fly in for the day. Grand sculptures are made, rent a cans well used, and kiosks for just mouthwash. They bake in the sun and endure desert storms. When all is said and done, they pick up any evidence of being there - not a gum wrapper is left, but maybe some footprints or bike tracks.

Yes, theres a little bit of nudity going on

The center of all this is the Burning Man. A tall structure of a man made out of wood that goes up in flames on the last day. Each day his arms are lifted and on the final day they are over his head and he goes boom