Today was diane and my 31st wedding anniversary.. I wanted to do a shout out to her… but there was no phoen or email there.. lso we made a plan…

 

the bikes were grtting pretty grindy by this tme. lucky we had my old pal gizzo (aka John B).. he took apart the bearings to see what could be saved.. .. the shaft were all packed  in fine playa  sand

 

that really chewed up the bearing chances.. . but john had a manuver for ppackign them back in without the chace.. one freind eve usd bacon grease !

soemone the worked !

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andrew got several of us to help with his movie project.. we each picked a piece of lit. and red it in fron t of the camera

 

here’s Nova (aka Jo) reading 

 

ty with his ‘shittaur 

 

gabe and I working on the surprise for mom 

 

at 3 p, we went back in the no ands land of Black rock ublic works to talk to mey new friened motorbike matt.. he runs the brining man playa cam.. he’d agfreed to doa  quik interview of us at 3  so diane could see it.. she knew to be looking at the webcam then 

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here’s the camera 

 

 

 

and here we are doing the anniversary dacne for diane.. and she saw the whole thing !!!!!

 

 

 

 

first a hit of good meszcal to give us courage.. 

 

gabe found a little give away… wtf ? 

 

then we found soemthign to  climb. Amazing view of Black Rock from ther e. 

 

 

our old freind Elliot showed up !

 

dinner.. gulp

 

diners.. gulp 

 

haoy anniversar my love.. we all love you so much !

niote all, niote sam

-me

 

 

anther hot noght 

 

we ent inside the man.. it was really eutifull 

 

so were max and becky !

 

absynth dispenser !

 

gabe in green 

 

the crew the next morning 

.. here are the goyls… 

 

 

and duanes pants 

 

here’s Georges very cool cosmis connection peice.. it visualized cosmic rays.. z

 

this oeue is one of my favoits.. its charon rowing the dead across the river styx 

 

anc this is the gravity temple. those are massive granit chuncks 

 

we organized a dee playa beer give away.. ahhh the magic of 80 ice cold beers ona 110 degree day a mile out in the dessert.. we mae freinds fast !

 

uh oh sand twister coming !

 

my freind tuchar 

 

here are those tesla coiks by day wth people for size rerference 

 

my freind Johns daughter.

 

sand stork.. stay close gabe !

 

more tomorro

nite all. nte sam\me

spent the night checking out the art and riding around the playa on our cheap bikes. it’s SO much fun.. the temp drops into the 70’s so its tolerable

 

 

heres the unburnt man 

 

we found a fire sand table.. I gotta make one of theese 

 

two GIANT phased tesla colis !

 

back around 4 and a few ours of sleep. My swamp cooler works retty wekk.. adds at leas t 2 hours of sleeping  comfort  rom the heat 

 

my te is looking a bit worse.

 

 

don’t worry..arron is onl ainting Kelly’s ey

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then I mae my pilgramige to the temple.. it really is a poilgramige.. I start crying the moment i enter the place.. it literally brings me to my knees..when I loose my breath.. I leave a samstone..a d a message for my dad.. pull myself togeterh.. and feel really. really great.. I only have to do it one.. it down’t happen the next timw i comw in.. but its really an amazing thing that comes over m. 

 

 

eww that toe 

 

sandstorm hitting our camp !!!!

 

more next

nite all, noite sam\-me

 

burning mans ‘days’ are actually nights.. we head out around 9 or 20 at night and get back around 4:30-5.. this first night we cruized aroudn seeign what was already tehre. first stop was our camp parnters in Rabid Trransit.. frinds Duane, Micki and Jerry.. they built Pulpo mechanico … and this is here new creation. 

 

then we unloaded enough bikes to get around and took off.. 

 

first stop was the beutiful peoice “aqueos’ from Jen Lewin studios’ .. Max was the lead tech on it.. it was so breutiful.. it responded very natually to walk or dance

 

afther that we jsut went cruzing aroudn the playa checkign out the art 

 

 

this tree was so simnole.. but one of m favorites. 

 

home past .4

 

gabe and I slept in one of the trucks..SOem of the othrs just slept outside that first night.. I’m sure it was cooler out there 

 

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veryone needed ot  lean up.. then we started to set o the camp. and eat brakfast  

 

 

 

i had a vermont shaped sandwhich 

 

hey the campo is looking good !

 

here’s the setu for the hexayirst.. ther makde of foam panels.. much cooler than a fabrzM 

 

hey… here’s my frind Rolf from The Ntehrlands.. how’d HE get there . 

 

 

our first camp meeting.. awwww

 

end of another great day.. more tomorrow..

nite all. nite sam

-me