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Welcome to Travel With Reason: my ongoing travel musings. Photos in the gallery at left will link you to corresponding albums at Flickr; more photo links can be found below. You can email me at ronreason@gmail.com. Thanks for stopping by!
The 9/11 anniversary weekend seems a good time to write about fallen buildings, memorials, remembering and celebrating those we have lost. This is my third essay about the wildly artistic and audacious Temple that is constructed annually at Burning Man (and designed to be burned in memoriam at the end of the festival week). Its [...]
[Black Rock City, Nevada] I went on a trip. Or was it a dream? On this trip-dream, I pitched a small tent in the middle of a harsh desert. Suddenly, for one week only, 50,000 people appeared from nowhere, to join me. Some were in tents, others in RVs, and many more in elaborate, bedouin-style [...]
[Black Rock City, Nevada] Among my favorite sights and sensations of Burning Man 2008 was one of the showpiece art installations, the Basura Sagrada temple. Each year at Burning Man, a temple is constructed as a work of art and architecture and memorial, where the festival participants (or “citizens,” now numbering about 50,000) leave inscriptions [...]
As someone who decided only 3 days before the event to attend Burning Man 2008, I feel wholly unqualified to offer advice to future first-timers. So, here you go: So you’re an art groupie or fan of oddball vacations in desolate locations. Great. If you think you can handle the daytime heat, nighttime chill, and [...]