Tag: Burning Man
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Burning Man 2013: Part 1
And now it’s time…the main event. Burning Man. This was my 5th “Burn” and the more often I get asked, “What is Burning Man?” the more at a loss for words I am. When you ask that question to one of the 65,000+ “Burners,” you’ll get 65,000+ different answers. “It’s an art festival.” “It’s the…
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Burning Man 2013, The Pilgrimage: Part 3
So as you know, I’ve been back from Burning Man for nearly a week, but my travel schedule during that time got so hectic I had to stop blogging. I came home to a broken air conditioner, miscellaneous plumbing crises, and a catering event, so I’m JUST now starting to come up for air and…
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Burning Man 2013: The Pilgrimage, part 2
Day 3 of our pilgrimage to Burning Man, and since Ross hadn’t laid eyes on the Grand Canyon since he was a little kid, I decide it will be well worth the hour and a half drive from Flagstaff to show it to him the BenStarr way. I have to say that when it comes…
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Burning Man 2013: The Pilgrimage, part 1
It begins. My annual pilgrimage to Burning Man. I’ll explain more about Burning Man in a later blog, because right now, it’s about the journey there. And boy, was I ready to be on the road. The last month has been nothing but frantic preparation for Burning Man. Way more than normal. In the past…
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Burning Man 2012: The Burn
After almost a full week of preparation and travel, we land in the Burning Man line. Burning Man takes place on the Black Rock Desert Playa…a vast dry lake bed in one of the most remote parts of the mainland US. You leave the pavement several miles north of the tiny village of Gerlach, Nevada,…
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Burning Man 2012: The Pilgrimage
If you’ve been following me since my season of MasterChef aired last summer, you know how fanatical I am about the Burning Man festival. Trying to describe this event is practically impossible. Each summer 60,000 people from all over the world assemble on a dry desert lake bed in northern Nevada and build a city…
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Burning Man: The Temple
Today I wanted to share with you an aspect of Burning Man that, to me, is the most significant feature of the event. Each year since 2000, a “temple” has been built, generally from recycled materials and found objects. The temple isn’t dedicated to any specific religion. Its goal is to be a sacred space…
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Burning Man: Initial Thoughts
I am back in Los Angeles from the Burning Man festival. As usual, I return from Burning Man (which we “burners” refer to as the “real world”) to the “default world” (the world we all live in on a dailcamp potluck at Burning Many basis) and have trouble assimilating back into said “default world” because…
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Los Angeles and Burning Man
So I am so sorry that it has been so long that I have posted a blog. At the moment I’m in my car heading north on I-15 towards THE BURNING MAN Festival. My bestie Chris AKA Doug Jacobson is typing this as a dictate. But first things first… Los Angeles! I arrived on L.A….