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My BMX bike and some of my gear
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Lots of essentials here. Wet Ones. Head lamp. Sun Hat. Ear plugs. Eye shade, etc.
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Don't forget your ticket!
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$20 child's size tent did the trick beautifully. I could fit in it if I laid diagonally across it.
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I built the world's simplest shade structure. It survived until Saturday night when the wind snapped the PVC pipe clear through.
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Food for a week in the desert. Mostly Clif Bars, oatmeal, and beef jerky.
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Interior of the 1976 Winnebago Tasca RV I rode out in.
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We ran out of gas just a few hundred yards from a gas station on our first tank. Not a great sign.
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The Sun rises Monday morning at the entrance gate. Made for some beautiful views and lots of happy burners.
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Line at the entrance gate about 6am Monday.
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Mural outside of center camp
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Me in my solarphobic dress out on the open playa near a random art oasis with couches and palm trees.
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The Purple Palace art car playa art tour
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The Man with his Tangled Bank base piece. A lot of work to exist for a week then burn to the ground, huh?
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Great art car
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One of the statues from 2007 Hope and Fear. These are amazing. She's made mostly of enormous chains.
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At night she holds a ball of fire
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My shade structure and tent
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Phil attempts to repair one of our broken pumps
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MOM sculpture day time
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And at night with me in the O
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Peak population was Saturday at noon: over 43,000
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A particularly cool art car. Note the license plate. I think they frigging drove this thing from California.
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Death Guild Thunder Dome still being set up
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Sign on Center Camp audio booth
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Aerial Silk performance in Center Camp
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Aerial Silk performance in Center Camp
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Aerial Silk performance in Center Camp
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For me, this is the photo that captures it this year. Gorgeous acrobat in sexy outfit performing aerial silk with a dusty bottom. This is Burning Man.
