Cant beelive it’s saturday already.. the week has flown past… iot feels like the burn had a late start because of all the wether.. but still its been so much fun. I love being out here with the whole family

thinkign about it.., this is my best burn ever.. and I think this is number 7. 

so our plan was to pack up, do a little more looking around then head out early afternoon. Our decision to leave today was a but of a change.. we’d initially planned to stay only until wednesday.. then we changed our mind and decided to stay for the whole thing.. .. including the temple burn on sunday night..

we changed our plan again because our plan is to go visit my mom for her 92nd birthday.. based on the traffic we’ve heard about on the access road (aka exudus traffic).. we’d have to leave immediately after the temple burn, drive through the night, cleanr the camper and drop it off all before 8am on the next day. that sounded increasinlly non relaxing.. we then through through staying to watch the man burn.. but even that would entail braving the 5-7 hour wait for exodus.. 

leaving today seemed like a good compromise.. we’ve has a ton a fun and  we’d be leaving on a high 

i’ve/we’ve really enjoyed the people in camps.. we’ve made many new freinds this trip.. here’s a set of pics of all of us..

Max and gabe left before we did.. they were headign oppossite directions.. back to their very busy lives

we spent an hour or so saying good bye to folks

I even said goodbye to our neighbors (el pulpo folks)  dummy freind.. one of their fire team couldnt come this year so hthey had a dummy of him placed at their campfire . We also went over to say goodbye to claire and skunk .. then it was time to go 

Firefly and gizzo had decided to come with us. 

we loaded up and headed out.. .. we made it from the gate to the pavement in only 45 minutes.. thays 3 hours faster than i’ve ever done ig..

the drive back to reno was fun.. we droped soem stuff off at fireflys freinds, then dropped firefly and gizzo at tehier botel… it was surprisingly hard to find.a hotell

DIane and I then headed to Sue and Jims.. we had come int reno a day early.. so we got to hang out with them… which was good fun|

they have a spectacular view from their place !

its going to take a minute to get used to the default world again !

nite all. nite sam

-me