Finally onto the playa!

For earlier parts of this story go

here

,

here

and

here

.

All photographs by Henri Cohen unless otherwise stated.

Isn't it amazing that with all of the planning in the world, and with days and days and multiple people helping, you can still end up with things to do until the very last minute possible? We didn't finish all the packing until after midnight the night before we needed to leave.

We crashed for a couple hours, not nearly enough. Up again while it was still dark out, attempting to leave at exactly 5:00 so we could miss the notorious Burning Man line. After some lateness hiccups, and some ruffled feathers, our tired caravan hit the road.

And then the magical thing happened. After a couple hours of driving we hit the playa and discovered ABSOLUTELY NO LINEUP. Unheard of! We just drove right on up.

We got to our campsite and in the distance we saw a magical

Archimedes Design

dome, set up by one of our earlier arrived clients! What a welcome sight.

Photograph by Toby Vann

We began unloading to set up what would be our home for the next 10 days. It was pretty amazing to be there for early arrival, being able to look off into the distance into the empty playa, knowing that in just a couple days, every inch as far as we could see would be covered with art and theme camps.