Friday, October 24, 2008

Burning Man

See the next three posts for Burning Man Pictures:

1. You should have seen the size of the bath tub.

2. The Man burns
3. The duck car parked at the Temple
4. Nice huh?
5. Sign speaks for itself really. But in case it doesn't. What more culd you want? Chewbacca, Clubber Lang, and topless women in the vecinity.















Burning Man

1. So many credit cards, all belonging to the same person. They hit the American dream dead on.__
2. It was hard work.
3. That was the best head stand I could muster on the magic carpet car.
4. You can see it was massive.
5. Lets hear it for Belgium















The theme for Burning Man this year was “The American Dream.” Boy do wish it had taken place after all this financial shit hit the financial fan. There would have been so much more enjoyable ironic art targeted at the theme. The burning man crowd has never been the first to buy into “the dream” but does anybody anymore?

For those who are reading this and have no idea what Burning Man is, I’ll sum it up in five words or less. Self-sustained, temporary-community, gift-economy, art-project, party-in-the-dessert. That’s five words right?

I took a break from tour leading this summer, and as well as a few other things I went to the festival this year, for my third time. Eva was there for her second. We camped into the dessert with a group of about 15 close friends and 40,000 not quite as close friends. Some of course got closer than others over the week.

Burning Man

1. It isafter all and art festival and Eva is a artisit
2. The early morning ride and we climbed the tallest structure.
3. This piece of art is very apropriatly named "The Bummer"
4. The Man himself
5. Just arrived.















Tuesday, October 14, 2008

I'm not lost

The Man, Before he Burned
I have been really slack about putting updates on this Blog. The last time I wrote anything was about three months ago in early July. At that point I was in the middle of leading 5 (2 week) tours in a row that ended in the middle of August. Then I took a month off, three weeks of that was spent in the US. Eva and I were mostly in California and Nevada, visiting family and attending the Burning Man festival. Then it was back to Europe with only one night passing through Belgium before heading to Paris to do one final tour for the season. This one was a bit longer, a four weeker asopposed to a two weeker that I had been doing. On that tour I went to Paris, Interlaken, Annecy, Nice, Florence, Rome, Venice, Munich (for Oktober fest) Vienna, Budapest, Prague, Berlin, Amsterdam and back to Paris. It was quite a trip. I did cheat a little bit in that time, when I picked up country number 50 visited. Maybe 50 should have been more of a celebration, but instead I caught the train an hour out of Berlin and walked across the border to Slubice, Poland. I spent a few hours there, had two meals, walked around a lot and bought some very cheap cigarettes for a friend. Not really glamourous, but I had been so close all summer and kept meaning to head over, so finally did. It is nice to be done with the season though and have some time to myself. So what am I doing in my off time (people always ask), well I'm going traveling of course. In about three weeks Eva and I leave for 6 weeks in South America. I'm a bit behind of coure, so in the next few weeks before we leave I will get some pictures up of the last few months.