“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!” – Jack Kerouac

It started with a card and a group of people who love me enough to send me to the desert. Inside was that ticket. I had the actual bit of paper in my hand in December 2008 and it sat on my shelf and mocked me for almost a year. The ticket I gifted to my eventual travelling partner in crime didnt come until the next spring. The conversation that happened not long after resulted in our decision to pack up my car and drive across the country, go to Burning Man and drive home all in the span of two weeks.

Not long after we decided that rather than buy a new tent we would build a geodesic dome as a playa house. Neither of us had ever done any kind of construction like this before but after much research and a whole bunch of faith in our ability to pull it off we started on a dome and a cover. In less than a year, we planned and saved for a cross country trip, I bought a car worthy to get us there and back, we built a 2V geodesic dome  and we figured out how to survive and party in an environment that has some pretty high standards. It was an adventure, it was a job and it was a fantastic experience.

I am going to try and tell the story. mcGruff is going to tell his story here as well.