we got in to Minneapolis late last night.. It was nice waking up here on my moms 92nd birthday ! She’s amazing.. she walks 3 miles a day., is sharp as a tack and knows everything about every one in her building .. we can hardly keep up with her.. !
We celebrated by taking a walk around the . walker museum outdoor sculpture garden
then we headed inside to the wonderful middle eastern restaurant inside the walker.. we had an excellent lunch
later on we went over to Marys and had a yummy sushi dinner and cake..
Nephew jake got to sow off his letter jacket for football.. we’re a proud unlce and aunt !
Happy birthday Ma.. We love you and are glad to be here for your birthday !
We had a great nights sleep in the hotel then grabbed the shuttle to RNO airport. They are well set up for burning man attendees.. great signs.. and bags for everyone’s luggage !
uneventful flight to minneapolis. Got to moms about 9PM..
Today is our 31st anniversary.. !!!( we’ve been together 43 years) I’m so happy and lucky to be married to Diane.. my love, best friend and partner in everything>>
I love you my girl !
We spent the day hangoing out with jim and sue. we went for a great hike on mt rose.. then had a great lunch
Sue and Jims son Dylan was a great friend to Sam and Gabe,. he passed in 2011 Jim showed us soem custom shoes he’d had made in Dylan’s memory
we headed home to clean out the camper in prep for takign it back.. ir was pretty covered with playa dust.. you can see the dust one the road in front of sue and jims where we cleaned it out !
at the end of the day, we headed to the grans sierra.. we’d made a non refundable reservation for tonight.. so thats where we spent our last night in Reno.. it’s an adventure visiting the place.. it was already filled with people coming back from the playa…
dust everywhere !>. they actually had a hose rinse off peoeples feet before they entered the hotel 🙂
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 !
