I’ve heard that from folks closer to Burning Man before - what’s different from your perspective?

Nice! Glad you had a good time!

Yep, I’m trying to keep the participatory aspect of it as front of mind as possible. Goal is to talk to as many people as possible, and say yes to as much stuff as I can (within reason/limits of personal safety). Was hoping to have some particularly cool thing/wandering experience at the ready, but for lack of planning gonna try and compensate by bolstering cool shit other folks are doing where the opportunity arises :).

me trying to find an article about 2005 specifically, only finding comments on forums and inferior social media platforms saying “Oh yeah, that’s just the Sunday at Reading, flaming tents and explosions are the norm, happens every year”

That’s a hell of an experience!