Tales of a Technogypsie

Monday on the Road From The Burn 2010: Travelling Across the Desert homeward bound to Colorado Monday, 6 September 2010 * Nevada to Colorado, United States of America * Early to rise after a good rest and sleep after a crazy night of driving, Sir Thomas Leaf was back on the road taking I-80 east [...]

Thunder Mountain Indian Monument * P.O. Box 162 * Imlay * Nevada * 89418 * United States of America * http://www.thundermountainmonument.com/ * Thunder Mountain is a little artistic wonder along the side of Interstate 80 near Imlay, Nevada. It is also known as “The Place Rolling Mountain Thunder built”. This array of odd kitch construction [...]

Sunday at the Burn 2010: Breaking Down Camp and Returning Home Exodus on Sunday, bumper-to-bumper, 3 hour long, 7 + lanes wide Sunday, 5 September 2010 * Burning Man, Black Rock City, Nevada, United States of America * While still a bit hungover, Sir Thomas Leaf awoke rather early to set out in breaking down [...]

Thunderdome / Death Guild * Burning Man * Black Rock City, Nevada * http://www.deathguildthunderdome.com/ * Every year many Burners look forward to the infamous “Thunderdome”, the interactive art project of San Francisco’s famed “Death Guild”. It is one of Burning Man’s most famous landmarks and one of its most exciting projects/theme camps. Operating for 6 [...]

Burning Man 2010: Metropolis * Black Rock City, Nevada * Monday, 30 August 2010 through Monday 6 September 2010 * Every year, in the heart of the Nevada Desert, a city known as Black Rock City is constructed to host the Burning Man Festival. It is a human created world with a dream of teaching [...]

Gerlach, Nevada, USA: Gerlach was founded with the construction of the Feather River Route of the Western Pacific Railroad from 1905-1909. Very much tied with Empire, Gerlach is the larger of the two towns on the edige of Black Rock Desert. Combined population with Empire is about 500 according to the 2000 Census. Both towns [...]

Empire, Nevada, U.S.A.: Very much tied to “Gerlach“, Empire is the smallest of the two towns on the edge of the Black Rock Desert. It is the classic company town of the United States Gypsum Corporation which owns all property and buildings in Empire. This was the longest continually operating gypsum mine in the U.S. [...]

Pyramid Lake Reservation* Nevada, United States of America * One of Nevada’s stunning natural beauties is “Pyramid Lake” on the Pyramid Lake Reservation that is a remnant of the 890+ feet deep Pleistocene Lake that geologists call “Lake Lahontan”. The lake is fed by the Truckee River after leaving Lake Tahoe upstream and has no [...]

West Wendover, Nevada, USA: * http://www.westwendovercity.com/ * As you enter Nevada coming from Salt Lake City, Utah – the first town you see in Nevada travelling along I-80 is West Wendover making it a very popular hotspot for the loose laws of Nevada with ever-flowing alcohol 24 hours a day and gambling casinos supporting one’s [...]

Nevada, United States of America: Cities: Black Rock City Empire Gerlach Pyramid Lake Reservation West Wendover Events: Burning Man Nevada is an atypical “Wild West” state of the U.S. that still embraces its history and outlaw appeal with legalized gambling, prostitution, lenient marriage and divorces, and rustic liberal freedoms. The term “Nevada” comes from the [...]

Burning Man Festival Black Rock City, Nevada Burning Man is a week long arts and entertainment, sustainable and self-reliance festival that occurs every year embracing Labor Day. From 1986 until 1989 there was a Summer Solstice bonfire ritual held on Baker Beach in San Francisco by Larry Harvey, Jerry James, and their friends. Here they [...]

Utah, Nevada, into Black Rock City Wednesday, 1 September 2010 * Utah-Nevada, United States of America * Sir Thomas Leaf and Lady Ellie awoke after night stay at the Wyoming and Utah border rest area. They were quickly back on the road to Black Rock City. Driving through the hot terrain of Utah, past the [...]

Black Rock City, Nevada, United States Is one of Nevada’s largest cities during Labor Day every year. It is a temporary, experimental, city of art that only exists for the annual Burning Man Festival that creates it. It is created together by artisans, community, adventurers, gypsies, scientists, Burners, and the Black Rock City, LLC organization. [...]