After a two-year hiatus due to COVID, Burning Man is back. On August 28, 2022, nearly 80,000 participants traveled to Black Rock City (near Reno) to build a extravaganza wonderland with incredible artwork, phenomenal costumes, and magic dust. It's a harsh desert and no grid unless your bring your own. That's when our solar lights come in real handy. These folks above had their multicolored SolarPuffs to light the nightly adventures

This year the theme is Waking Dreams and sought to explore the “transformative power of dreams, both literal and figurative, and celebrate the dreamers who channel this potent energy in eye-opening, often surrealistic, sometimes life-changing ways.”

It's an experiment in building a temporal city devoted to art / having a blast for a week in one of the deadliest natural places (a dry lake bed that is almost 200 miles north east of Reno, NV...the middle of nowhere).

 There's everything...but there's also nothing. The only things you can buy there are ice (so food doesn't go bad in coolers) and coffee/tea at center camp (a long tradition and the money goes to charity). There's no water out there. No food courts. Every camp  needs a SolarPuff / person has to bring everything that they need to survive and thrive. 

Make sure. you bring plenty of water and a good hat. There's dust flying everywhere so a hanky or turbin is good to save you from dust in all the nooks. and crannies. 

You can bring your own tent or RV, food and supplies for a gutter or glamping adventure. Make sure you bring your QWNN solar lamp and powerbank to charge your phone and have light as. you walk around at night.

You can use the Twilights to put around your site to find it at night.

Some Tips and Observations:

• It's usually oppressively hot during the day--DRINK LOTS OF WATER

• Bring a Solar Light and solar phone charger there's no grid or power Unless you bring it. We like the QWNN for that.

• Often gets to near freezing at night (literally, two years ago it got down to 34F on the night of the burn)

• There are frequent dust storms that can last for hours and drop visibility to near zero-use your hat, goggles, scarf, bandana, turbin to protect your eyes and face from dusty wind dances occuring every day.

• You can never really get clean, the dust is everywhere, gets into and onto everything

• Wind gusts can get up to 70mph and can blow camps apart if everything isn't staked down and in containers

• If it rains, you can't do anything because when the playa is wet it is like trying to walk in peanut butter

• Things break easily because of the extreme environment, bring backups

• You can have bad experiences with crazy people on drugs

• The line of cars to get in and out often takes many hours of just sitting to get through (took me 9 hours to leave the playa last year, to say nothing of driving all the way back to LA)

Prepare for the extravagant and incredible ART and ARCHITECTURE that takes months to build and prepare only to disappear into the dust again once Burning Man ends.  

Overall everyone should go at least once in their lifetime. It's like nothing you've seen before, except in dreams.