Day 6 – Mud City Reborn, Pub Crawl

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Friday, September 4, 2026 Morning dawned mostly clear with some high puffy clouds, no dust, and a bit of wind. Oh yeah, and a lot of mud. Mud everywhere. It had rained a lot overnight, so the top several inches of the playa were water logged. When playa dust gets wet it turns into very ... Read More

Day 5 – Dust and Burning and Rain

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Thursday, September 3, 2026 More hard-blowing dust during the day, gusting to 4 mph, and we could attest. The wind let up in the evening, finally, so we headed out to watch a rescheduled art burn. Many had been rescheduled from yesterday due to the high winds; the one we watched burn, a small one ... Read More

Day 4 – Dust and More Dust

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Wednesday, September 2, 2026 The day was windy and dusty, all day. The morning looked promising, with some blue sky and puffy clouds, but that did not last. We spent the day in camp, mostly. River went out for a bit.

Day 3 – Drive and Dust

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Tuesday, September 1, 2026 Hunkered down during the day, cleaning stuff, charging stuff. Turned on the AC in the rig, which was nice. It was hot and dusty. Went out biking for a bit, checked out center camp. Later, drove the art car around the playa. After going into the deep playa and then trundling ... Read More

Day 2 – Sleep and Burn

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Monday, August 31, 2026 Not a lot of activity on this day. We slept in, and it felt great. The weather held; it was hot for Burning Man, but not terrible. The art car was misbehaving with its electrical, so we decided to keep it parked and do some scootering and then biking around the ... Read More

Day 1 – Housekeeping and Playa

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Sunday, August 30, 2026 We set up camp in the late morning / early afternoon. Camp involved putting up a tent shelter, with one side to block the morning sun, putting the propane tanks out into our fuel depot (10 feet away from anything, with some marker to keep people from running over them), and ... Read More

Burning Man Terminology

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I am not an expert. These are a random assortment of Burning Man terms. DarkwadA person, riding a bike or not, who is on the playa at night but without any illumination. Esplanade The avenue between the city and the playa. Mutant Vehicles are not allowed on esplanade. Esplanade is a buffer between the city ... Read More

Day Negative 1 – Travel Delay

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Friday, August 28th, 2026 – Suburb of Seattle, WA I haven’t tracked a Burning Man week on this site before, as this domain is mainly for tracking the art car itself. But I have a couple of interested readers who’d like to know, so here we go. A grand experiment in blogging / journalling / ... Read More

Finally, Lights

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Over the course of several weeks, I finally added lights to BrainCar. Except for the back hatch, I drilled 7/16″ holes spaced 2″ apart on the other six shell pieces (including the side doors). Into each hole I strung WS2811 LED pixels, 50 to a string, in whatever pattern seemed to work for the spot. ... Read More