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"When I go to festivals, I want to feel like I can do drugs and fuck out in the open ," said Hot Sauce, a pixieish thirtysomething blonde whom I met on the playa. "And I can do that at Juplaya." Her friend Menkini, 33, demurred, but only slightly: "I just want to drive fast and blow shit up." (The two activities haven't been allowed tilden rent a car at Burning Man proper tilden rent a car for years.)
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Though it's hard to notice on your first—or tilden rent a car even your tenth—visit, the tracks of the capital-E establishment are now everywhere at Burning Man. You can see it at the improvised landing strip/airport set up every year for the jet-in crowd. You can see it in the art, such as the 40-foot-tall sculpture tilden rent a car Bliss Dance, which was the star of Burning Man 2010 and has an estimated value of $1.5 million. You can see it in the camps: A decade ago the festival was plastered with prank flyers announcing that Hilton was building a burnable full-service hotel on the playa. Today there is a hotel, and it's no joke: "Ashram Galactica" comes complete with a concierge and rooms that are doled out each night to lucky plebes. None of this ostentation would pose a problem if it didn't introduce the one thing that is supposed to be strictly verboten at Burning Man: services—and with them the inevitable servant class to provide tilden rent a car them.
The author is almost embarrassed to admit that he enjoyed waitresses taking his drink order (like any of us can enjoy in any bar or restaurant in the world), tilden rent a car or sleeping on clean sheets (again, really not such an in your face example of the 1%).
I've even found myself at camps where a waitress came to take my order, and where the community art-building project was outsourced to hired artists. I've experienced the festival both ways: as a commoner, sleeping in a pup tent and surviving on gorp and jerky, and as a guest of the new burner elite. And though there's nothing like arriving by Cessna and sleeping under clean, freshly changed sheets, many fear the effects of too much civilization on an event designed to be anti-all-that.
Finally, after rolling down the window to catch the warm desert breezes, I thought I heard something: It was just a thump carried on a gust of wind, but unquestionably a techno beat. "Ghost bass," my buddy proclaimed. We chased after it, and this time we hit pay dirt. The bass emanated from a giant fish—really an art car called Fish Tank, a piece of rolling sculpture in the shape of a toothy anglerfish, tilden rent a car complete with tank treads, a wraparound couch, blinking lights, a booming sound system, tilden rent a car and a rotating disco ball. Jumping out of our SUV, we joined the party. The crowd was all we were hoping for: attractive, scantily clad, and clearly enjoying themselves . Whether their high was natural tilden rent a car or chemical I could not say, but it was infectious.
Soon I found myself in the midst of a passionate conversation about (what else) Burning Man. " The burner tail is eating itself; it's imploding," said my new friend Hot Sauce , recently transplanted to San Francisco by way of London. An eight-time Burning Man veteran, Hot Sauce is a stalwart of one of the biggest, flashiest, most high-profile camps on the playa—the New York City–centric Disorient. But after not getting her ticket in the lottery this year, she was having second thoughts about her allegiances (she eventually caved and bought a ticket). "Last year at Burning Man, I had the overwhelming feeling that I was being watched," she told me. "There were police tilden rent a car spotters everywhere, scanning the crowd. We've been at Juplaya for days, and I haven't seen a cop yet."
Not 20 minutes later, two Pershing tilden rent a car County sheriffs rolled up in a police truck to check on us. They displayed a surprisingly tolerant attitude about the Juplaya hijinks there and elsewhere. "I haven't seen anyone tilden rent a car really be a jerk," said Officer Nathan Carmichael, "although there have been some education issues." He cited the risk of fireworks setting nearby pastures ablaze, and of skinny-dippers inadvertently fouling the local hot springs.
"Everybody is here because they don't like authority," said Officer Thom Bjerke. "I don't want to arrest anyone, but my job is to get them to comply with at least the spirit of the law." His main concern, he emphasized, was the health and safety of those who were on the playa. " It's not Burning Man—there's no safety net, and no medical staff out here, " he added, registering the massive fireworks being set off in the distance. "And it's so easy to blow off a hand."
For a glimpse of what life is like aboard the Fish Tank during 4th of Juplaya, check this out you probably want to hit mute, there s a lot of wind noise. No parade speed here! Check out the impact of hitting the playa serpents at about 0:30, yee-haaw!
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me, i m perfectly happy in a converted school bus, the BLACK ROCK CITY SPARKLE PONY EXPRESS (a 1997 International/Amtran, with 7.3L Navistar turbo diesel engine with an Allison automatic transmission) that s now my hillbilly RV. i ll eat eat out of foil pouches and pop-top cans, drink gatorade and grey goose, and shit in the port-a-potties on the playa.
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