Burning Man – Alex In Wanderland https://www.alexinwanderland.com Sun, 18 Dec 2022 13:49:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Burning It All Down in 2022 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/burning-man-2022-waking-dreams/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=burning-man-2022-waking-dreams https://www.alexinwanderland.com/burning-man-2022-waking-dreams/#comments Fri, 16 Sep 2022 17:07:18 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=73047 Alex at Burning Man Waking Dreams 2022
  Where we’re at: I just got back from Burning Man 2022. I had some thoughts. They say, as you drive through the gates of Burning Man, in my case after a cross-continental flight and a brutal four state drive drive capped off by six hours in a line of suspiciously shiny RVs, welcome home. But […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/burning-man-2022-waking-dreams/feed/ 32 Alex In Wanderland The Great Escape: Month 52 Roundup https://www.alexinwanderland.com/the-great-escape-month-52-roundup/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-great-escape-month-52-roundup https://www.alexinwanderland.com/the-great-escape-month-52-roundup/#comments Tue, 24 May 2016 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=39292 Oh, my monthly roundups. They are so ridiculously out of sync with real time now that I’ve considered axing the entire series, as I did recently with Photo of the Week. Yet I know this series has some loyal fans — and I’m one of them! Apologies for the delay, but I suppose better is late […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/the-great-escape-month-52-roundup/feed/ 37 Burning Man Budget 2015 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/burning-man-budget-2015/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=burning-man-budget-2015 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/burning-man-budget-2015/#comments Wed, 13 Apr 2016 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=40525 A week without money – the gifting culture and decommodification of Burning Man is one of the things I love most about it. Still, while nothing can be bought or sold on the actual playa, anyone who has ever made it through the gates of black rock city knows it’s not cheap to get there. I […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/burning-man-budget-2015/feed/ 14 Tips for Greening Your Burn https://www.alexinwanderland.com/tips-greening-burn/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tips-greening-burn https://www.alexinwanderland.com/tips-greening-burn/#comments Fri, 08 Apr 2016 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=40253 I’ve heard the phrase, “the playa gives you the burn you need, not the burn you want.” Over the past several years I’ve been inching closer and closer towards the goal of a sustainable life. Perhaps the challenges my camp presented me with were a gift, in a way – a reminder that this is an […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/tips-greening-burn/feed/ 30 The Burning Man Blues https://www.alexinwanderland.com/the-burning-man-blues/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-burning-man-blues https://www.alexinwanderland.com/the-burning-man-blues/#comments Fri, 01 Apr 2016 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=39283 For me, Burning Man is some parts magical and some parts frustrating and some parts blissful and some parts devastating, just like everything that regular life is – except also dusty. There is so much gushing with positivity around Burning Man that I feel almost embarrassed to admit that two years in a row, I had […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/the-burning-man-blues/feed/ 61 What the &!*# is Burning Man? Two Burns Down And The Question Still Burns https://www.alexinwanderland.com/what-is-burning-man-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-is-burning-man-2 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/what-is-burning-man-2/#comments Tue, 29 Mar 2016 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=39284 Back in 2013, I attempted to answer a question that seemed to come up a lot whenever I referenced my ten day sojourn to the Nevada desert: what the &!*# is Burning Man, anyway? In 2015, I resumed my investigation. After my first burn, I knew that I’d be back — over and over again. The […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/what-is-burning-man-2/feed/ 58 Fifteen Photos That Will Put Burning Man On Your Bucket List https://www.alexinwanderland.com/fifteen-photos-that-will-put-burning-man-on-your-bucket-list/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fifteen-photos-that-will-put-burning-man-on-your-bucket-list https://www.alexinwanderland.com/fifteen-photos-that-will-put-burning-man-on-your-bucket-list/#comments Fri, 25 Mar 2016 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=39285 Is this festival deep in the heart of the Nevada desert on your bucket list? I hope that after this post, it will be! I attended Burning Man for the first time in 2013, and then again in 2015. Burning Man is intense, y’all. In some ways, it’s taken me almost six full months to process […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/fifteen-photos-that-will-put-burning-man-on-your-bucket-list/feed/ 36 Photo of the Week 221: Burning Man https://www.alexinwanderland.com/photo-of-the-week-221-burning-man/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=photo-of-the-week-221-burning-man https://www.alexinwanderland.com/photo-of-the-week-221-burning-man/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2015 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=35907 I’m back from Burning Man. While technically we left Black Rock City late Sunday night, between travel time and de-playa-ing it wasn’t until today that I was back in front of my laptop. I’m teetering on the edge of overwhelmed as I look at the backlog of work that’s piled up in my absence, yet still […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/photo-of-the-week-221-burning-man/feed/ 75 Surviving Burning Man https://www.alexinwanderland.com/surviving-burning-man/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=surviving-burning-man https://www.alexinwanderland.com/surviving-burning-man/#comments Mon, 21 Oct 2013 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=17450 Burning Man inspired me to revive my Survival Series, a resource highlighting my favorite festivals and parties around the world. Previously I’ve featured Sunjam, an intimate annual rave on a deserted Central American island, and The Full Moon Party, Southeast Asia’s most infamous monthly blowout. What: Burning Man is infamously impossible to describe, though I did […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/surviving-burning-man/feed/ 30 Photo Essay: Burning Man By Night https://www.alexinwanderland.com/photo-essay-burning-man-night/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=photo-essay-burning-man-night https://www.alexinwanderland.com/photo-essay-burning-man-night/#comments Sat, 12 Oct 2013 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=17824 Burning Man At Night
I’ve described Burning Man several times as simply a different universe. Never is this more true than at night. So for a nice lazy Saturday afternoon post, I wanted to share with you my photos of this alternative planet… after dark. As the sun begins to set, the temperature cools and neon lights blink to life […]
 
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