One year (and a week) married! We spent our first anniversary packing up and loading a box truck with all the stuff we crazy Burning Man participants bring along when we go to regional events (the PNW's "Critical Northwest", in this case). After about 5 hours of sweating in the sun, we got everything packed, drove back to the city, and over the next 5 hours unloaded everything at 4 different houses. Then we took a shower and went to bed with tired smiles on our faces around 7:PM. This seems to be the perfect metaphor for our relationship: Ignore the trivial shit (like days and anniversaries), and focus on the epic (making amazing things happen for and with our community). Oh yeah. And on the 4th of July I flew a drone through our annual fireworks show, until it freaked out complaining of "EM Interference" and shut down. I had to fly it back through the aerial bombardment by guts, since the screen locked up and it stopped transmitting video! Excitement. Work? Oh yeah. Work. Still doing that. Busy as shit. Gonna get back to that now. waves quickly and exits stage left
Speaking of - will you be coming to BM this year? I'd love to meet you in person so much!!! Just thrifted the first outfit peice last week - I'm so pumped! Might go thrift shopping some more this weekend :) Been trying to think of some funny thing to print on some stickers to vandalise the place a bit. Still got time, but I'm feeling inspired.
I thought I was going to go one last time, this year... but then my wife and I found cheap tickets to Europe, and decided to do our honeymoon instead! (Only a year-and-a-half late!) So no Burning Man for me this year. Maybe next year. My plan is to go to the "big burn" one more time, completely stripped down: On my motorcycle, camping alone, out near the walk-in camping area. When I went back to Burning Man about fifteen years ago, I went alone on my motorcycle. So going back one last time in the same, stripped-down way, seems like good closure to me. And yes ... I want to meet you, too! Very much. I think we would have a LOT of fun talking about traveling and adventures and marketing and working for yourself and all that stuff. I look forward to the day when we can make that happen...
We are figuring out where to go now. Stay in London for a couple of days to see friends, and make my regular pilgrimage to the British Museum and Dali Museum. Probably the bass guitar store in Camden. Then rent a car and head west to Stonehenge, on the way to Devon. I have friends out there with a lovely B&B in a 15th c. mill. Then north across the Devon Moors, to Bath. Around the corner to Cardiff to see the Dr Who Museum (wife is a big fan!). Work our way north through Oxfordshire (more friends there), York, Fountains Abbey, up to Hadrian's Wall. Then Glasgow to Islay for a tour of the distilleries - especially Laphroaig - and then back to the mainland for... Scottish Highlands? Edinburgh? Maybe a cheap flight to Budapest for a long weekend, to see my friends there? From Budapest to Paris on a train? Or maybe Berlin? Stockholm? Sarajevo? Then back to Heathrow for the flight back home. (Virgin Air upper economy class!) We shall see how it all works out...