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]]> http://dannation.org/2010/09/05/why-i-love-my-ipad-reason-225/feed/ 1 http://dannation.org/2010/09/05/why-i-love-my-ipad-reason-225/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Dannation/~3/1wOtQ7rt62Q/ http://dannation.org/2010/09/04/i-am-a-burner-part-2-im-out/#comments Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:02:05 +0000 DanNation http://dannation.org/?p=2346 Between Burning Man 2001 and Burning Man 2002, I came out of the closet. Of course this added lots of fun to an event where a third of the attendees are gay. In previous years, I had sneaked around the event attending men’s foam parties, drag shows and watching nude male wrestling at Astro Pups. Now, I felt I could do it in full fetish costume and uninhibited glory.

Even though the event had grown to 40,000 from the 4,000 the first year I attended in 1995, it was still the best vacation I had every year.

Here are some great pics of my first “out” Burning Man.

The Man

Our main mode of transportation

Lovely man

Anything goes

The Sweet Spot - our home on the Playa

Our entire camp

At the Burn - I look so tan and happy

Coming: 2003 to 2005

Now that the kids are headed back to Rydell High for the year (where they will “rule the school”), it’s kinda sad that summer is quickly coming to an end. Here’s something to lighten up your mood.

Kellan Lutz almost naked

Sorry – couldn’t resist…

I wish I were going this year; alas, I am not. Burning Man is SUCH a part of me in so many ways. I learned to stop worrying about being who I was. I still have many twinges of this, but I am challenged to figure out what I’d be if I hadn’t attended the Man. I spent some time a few weeks ago scanning old photos and pulling older digital ones off my external drive. Of course, I stumbled across photos from my ten years of attending. I made wonderful life friends there and learned to live without a cell phone and internet. And, to eat vegan.

I first attended in 1995 when it was only a few thousand people. The first time I went by myself, having read about the event in a magazine. I was that guy that took lots of beer and no food and planned to sleep in my 4Runner (the one before the one below). I didn’t take a camera, and photos from 1997 and 1998 still need to be scanned. So, my retrospective begins later…

In honor of The Sweet Spot, here’s a look back at a decade.

In Part 1, I’ll share 2001. It was just before 9/11 and as I look back at these, it’s strange that the whole world was going to change in two weeks and we would never have thought it.

2001 - on my new 4Runner (I still have it 170K miles later)

Building the camp on Monday

Lisa and Roxann on art bikes

My favorite photo that I've ever taken at Burning Man

Seth and brother Daniel ready for Black Rock City

Debra and I heading out to the Burn

The Burn

Friends from across the Playa

Someday, I will go back. We are thinking perhaps 2011. Wanna come?

Tune in tomorrow for “I Am a Burner Part 2: I’m OUT!”