Post Burning Man we only had one specific goal – to make it to Hemet, CA for much needed down time. We had met some folks in the area during our travels earlier in the year that we [...]]]>

Time Period: September 6 – October 24
Miles Driven: 1179
(not including non-RV trips)

Post Burning Man we only had one specific goal – to make it to Hemet, CA for much needed down time. We had met some folks in the area during our travels earlier in the year that we only had the opportunity to visit for a few days back in April – and we were anxious to return to their beautiful home.

We stayed at Burning Man late, helping with the clean-up efforts and taking responsibility for our camp achieving a ‘green’ rating for leaving no trace behind.

Directly from Black Rock City, we went back to Fallon, NV to pick up Kiki and wash some dust off.

Afterburn at PermaBurn

Eyeing a handout we received during our clean-up days, we were intrigued by an opportunity to visit PermaBurn for their Afterburn event.  PermaBurn is 600+ acres that were purchased about 85 miles due west of Gerlach, with the intentions of being an intentional full time Burning Man inspired community. Well within range of the playa, it’s an ideal place for testing out and staging art projects.  The vision is one of community effort and manifestation.

Always in search of nomadic ports with like minds, we were intrigued enough to divert up to Northern California for a few days to check it out. It was a small gathering of folks for the weekend and we had opportunity to meet many of the folks behind the project. It was just what we needed – an opportunity to chill with community post Burning Man, before returning to the ‘real’ world. And bonus, there’s cell phone signal out there!

For just $200, interested folks can buy in with a lifetime membership – which gives you a vote in how the land is used. It also gives you full access to the land for as long as its held as part of PermaBurn. An awesome opportunity, and one that we definitely recommend checking out if you’re so intrigued. The folks behind it are awesome and well intentioned.

Sacramento and San Francisco

After PermaBurn we returned to Sacramento, where we have dear friends – Sean & Lindsay, as well as our storage unit. We spent a few days putting our Burning Man gear back in storage and getting our house reorganized and prepared for potentially not returning to the area for a while.

And then it was on to San Francisco for an evening to spend with our dance community – Rhythm Society. It was their quarterly All Night Dance Celebration. Not even a fire marshall could keep the event from happening, and it was quickly re-tooled to take place at an alternate location right on time. It was definitely worthwhile to make the stop on our way south.

After lunch on the Presido munching down on our favorite burritos from Taqueria Cancun, we started our southward journey.  We opted to take the interstate instead of a slow meandering way – anxious to get to Hemet.

Hemet, CA

There are definitely places in our travels that feel more like a homebase than a stop,  and Hemet is amongst them. It’s not so much about the place, as it about the people. Fortunately for us, this place has both!  Beautiful scenery and awesome people.  Here they also have a little porch with RV hook-ups right off of it. We’ve taken it over, giving us a beautiful outdoor living room and office.

Another reason for hanging out in this area of the country was its proximity to Las Vegas, as we had been invited to attend Photoshop World as a guest of our technomadic friend Ben Willmore (who is a presenter there).  Deciding it was cheaper to carpool up and split a room with our friends from Hemet – Sean & Helene and us made the trip together up to Vegas.

We had a lot of fun, including participating in the iStockPhoto party invite process – which involved decorating Munny dolls. We made ours to resemble Ben with his rocking mohawk – which he boldly decided to keep from Burning Man where we last saw him.

Upon returning to Hemet, we each got invitations to attend two different conferences in two different places.  Cherie was invited to the Experts Academy up in San Francisco, and Chris to the Los Angeles Idea Project.  For the first time in our 2.5 years of travel together – we went our separate ways for a few days – which is probably a good thing for traveling couples to do every so often.  With no rush to be anywhere, Cherie opted to take the Coast Starlight train back – enjoying a relaxing and scenic adventure.

We’re now hanging around Hemet for a few days more as our Jeep has some maintenance and warranty issues taken care of.  Chris has been practicing his paragliding, a sport he’s not done in a couple of years.

We anticipate in the next few days we’ll embark on the next adventure – which we actually have no clue where we’re headed yet.

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Phone Car - Burning Man 2008

If you looked hard enough, for years now there have been options for communicating with the outside world at Burning Man via internet or satellite phone. (Not to mention via the exaggeratedly disgruntled Black Rock City Post Office…)

For as long as 802.11 has existed, some geeks have enjoyed the challenge of building a public WiFi network in the desert — it is very literally an expression of their art. I first ran across WiFi on the playa in 2003, and in 2006 I was able to photo-blog the construction progress of the Conexus Cathedral, often using a porta-potty as an office near one of the few open WiFi connections to find shelter from the wind, sun, and dust.

But most Black Rock City citizens remained blissfully unaware of the ever increasing availability of WiFi in the city.

Voice connections have always been even harder to find. A few years ago I ran across confused late-night party people lined up at a phone booth in the open desert. I overheard conversations like this — “wow, this thing actually dialed! Oh, hi mom…. Yeah, I’m at Burning Man…. I didn’t think this phone booth was real…. Oh, it is 4AM?!? Sorry!”

Bizarre world-bending installation art at its finest.

But cell phone service on the playa?!? No way. It has always seemed like Black Rock City would be the last place on earth the get cell coverage. Sure, some burners have been experimenting with developing open source GSM software that is part of a project to bring cheaper mobile phone service to villages in remote parts of the developing world, but their on-playa network in 2008 only accidentally allowed a few dozen outbound calls to go through. That connectivity was a bug, not a feature.

But this year…. AT&T and Verizon (with no cooperation from Burning Man itself) actually set up a temporary wind and solar powered cell tower on some leased land just off the playa. Connectivity, for better or for worse, had come at last to Black Rock City.

Fittingly – this year’s Burning Man theme: “Evolution”

Many were up in arms about how the arrival of cell phone service might change Burning Man.  We even received a reply to a tweet telling us to ‘put the phone down!’.  There were threats of protests, and some anticipation of people walking down the streets of Black Rock City shouting out ‘Can you hear me now?’.   However, by and large, cell phone use was kept close to home, and mostly when away from camp cell phones were not particularly noticeable.

Particularly after the city gates opened and the population swelled, availability of a line out became more scarce. Five bars isn’t very useful when there are 40,000 people trying to share a reported outgoing capacity of just 40 simultaneous calls.  We were however able to check e-mail just enough to not feel completely negligent of our clients. As full time traveling technomads, there really isn’t much difference for us between ‘real life’ and ‘vacation’ anyway.

Having some connectivity was also invaluable in organizing a camp of 70 nomads, half of whom were going to camp at a location that we land grabbed just as the gates open, and which we needed to try and get the word out as to where. There were also plenty of last minute logistics and challenges to handle – and while you can just trust in playa magic to work everything out, it’s awfully nice to hear a friendly voice on the line to help figure out the details.

And having some cellular service helped folks in emergency situations, such as a fellow Camp Nomadian receiving word of a family emergency and being able to coordinate an early departure.

Temple Burn 2009

A side effect of so much connectivity at Burning Man was much more information flowing out to the world in a streaming fashion. This year, those tracking Burning Man from their computers at home likely saw and heard about more things at Burning Man than those of us actually there.  Catching up with my mom yesterday, she was telling us all about the art projects and news she saw posted during the week – she had seen more of the playa art projects than we had!

Watching Burning Man from afar is no where close to actually being there. So much of Burning Man just simply can’t be relayed outside of Black Rock City. It’s about being there. It’s about enduring white outs, wind storms and heat with your community. It’s about the emotional highs and lows. It’s about the amazing connections you make. It’s about actually interacting with the art, not just viewing it.  It’s about conversing with an artist late at night about his vision, his challenges and his passion. It’s about being in the crowd at the Temple Burn and really feeling the release of so much emotions.

It’s about the life changing experiences and transformations.

And it’s about watching the most amazing full moon rise on the horizon with burn platforms dancing in the distance and fireworks crackling in the sky, while sipping fantastic home brew with new friends.

More than anywhere else on earth, to understand it, you just have to be there.

We applied for official placement with Burning Man, and got it.  We manage to gather around 25 folks to camp with us, most of them aspiring nomads, though not many others were living full-time on the [...]]]>

Camp Nomadia 2009

In 2008, Chris and I decided to host a Burning Man theme camp for other nomadic folks like ourselves.

We applied for official placement with Burning Man, and got it.  We manage to gather around 25 folks to camp with us, most of them aspiring nomads, though not many others were living full-time on the road yet. In addition to bonding with our campmates, we hosted several social events that brought together other nomadic souls, and connected with a lot of great people.

Overall, it was a highly rewarding experience, and we vowed to host Camp Nomadia again.

Our goal has always been to find and build a tribe of like minds, and by the time we had to submit our application in May to be a registered and placed camp for Burning Man 2009, we had lined up over 35 mostly full-time nomadic folks to be a part of the camp, converging from all over the world. We were astounded by the quality of the camp that was shaping up. Last year felt like the first small step towards building and uniting a nomadic tribe. This year, it was all starting to come together.

But then, just a few weeks ago… we were crushed and thrown into disarray when we learned that Camp Nomadia would be amongst the 130 camps not pre-placed this year due to the shrunken size of Black Rock City.

But out of the ashes rises great things, and the St. Louis based theme camp Pandora’s Lounge & Fix-It Shoppe stepped in and invited us in to share their premium placement right behind Center Camp – a way better location than we would have ever gotten on our own!

This turn of events was the direct result of our stopping by the St. Louis regional Burning Man event, Gateway Burn, earlier in the summer.

Pandora’s didn’t have enough room to take all the Nomadians in however, so we opted to start a Camp Nomadia Annex to avoid turning anyone away. Chris, fellow technomad Ben Willmore and I were able to get Early Access Passes to help build Pandora’s, so we knew we would be able to do a land grab near the main Camp Nomadia right as the gates opened at 12:01 AM Monday morning.

As soon as we had plans in place, we were contacted by the Digital Vagabond, who was not thrilled that the camp he was planning to host the Roads Scholars and Matador Travel at was placed in a loud and remote section of the city.  So just a few days before we headed to the playa, we merged the Digital Vagabond tribe in with Camp Nomadia. This brought our total estimated camp population up to 70+ folks. And the majority of them are actually full time travelers and travel enthusiasts. We could not have been more thrilled – or overwhelmed!

But suddenly, our little minimal-organizing-and-infrastructure-needed camp now involved herding 70 nomadic burners (most of whom have never met) to two separate locations on the playa, and making sure we were perceived as excellent guests of Pandora’s. Egads!

Nomadic Happy Hour - Chris, Cherie, Ben, Roberto, Asami, Steff & JoAnna

It was a lot of work, but so worth it.

Camp Nomadia ended up being equally split between two nearby locations.  We had nomadic folks who travel via RV, motorcycle, tour bus and hitchhiking. We had folks who had been traveling for years, those just embarking on their journey and those currently in transition to a more mobile lifestyle.  We had folks from Australia, New Zealand, USA, Britain, Mexico, Canada and beyond.  We had global travelers and domestic travelers.  We had folks actively writing about their travels, and those who were intentionally living as off the radar as they could.  We had folks who were working as they travel, as well as those who are taking a sabbatical or newly retired.

Merging with Pandora’s also gave us an awesome lounge in which to host Nomadic Happy Hours, to invite nomads from across the playa to join us.  We even decided to try hosting a ‘Technomadic Lifestyle Workshop’.

I honestly wasn’t expecting more than perhaps a dozen folks sitting around a couch talking about technomadism and swapping travel tips.  Instead, 15 minutes before the start of the workshop, the lounge was completely full.  By the time we started the workshop, we were literally overflowing into the streets.  Our best estimate is that there were 80-100 folks present, all eager to learn more about how to do what we do.

Merging in with the Digital Vagabond Tribe also meant that we were able to host the Roads Scholars Graduation Party, the culmination of

Roads Scholars Grad Party

the road trips of four young folks who had spent the summer on the road with sponsorship from Matador Travels.  It was an honor to meet three of the scholars – JoAnna Haugen, Kyle Smith and Allana and attend their graduation ceremony conducted by the honorary dean of Vagabond U, Ed Buryn, the author of the 1970′s travel classic Vagabonding in America.

The week spent hosting Camp Nomadia was full of incredible moments of connection and inspiration. One moment stands out in my mind right now – on the day before we left the playa, an attendee biked up to thank us for the workshop. He told us that he had been so inspired this week that he was planning to head home, sell all of his stuff, and hit the road full time.

Yeah, Camp Nomadia rocked.

The last segment of our Summer 2009 travels was wrapping up our cross country adventure and arriving for Burning Man. With a month ahead of us to get there, we looked for ways to optimize backroads and scenic routes. We aimed to visit a [...]]]> Time Period: July 29 – August 28
Miles Driven: 2764

The last segment of our Summer 2009 travels was wrapping up our cross country adventure and arriving for Burning Man. With a month ahead of us to get there, we looked for ways to optimize backroads and scenic routes. We aimed to visit a few more National Parks along the way, as well as friends.   We also put ourselves up to the challenge to try not to pay for camping and to stay entirely off grid by not needing hookups for the month ahead. Given the higher temperature month of August, this was an especially tall order.

Thus we conceived of the Technomad Trifecta: Scenic. Free. Connectivity.   And we aimed to find it wherever we went.

Missouri

When we left St. Louis we anticipated that we’d jet as quickly as possible through Missouri and Kansas – figuring there wouldn’t be many options for the Technomad Trifecta.  We were proven wrong.

To avoid heavy traffic along the interstate out of St. Louis, we quickly diverted to backroads and followed the Missouri River westward towards Jefferson City. Beautiful drive with rolling hills and lots of pulls offs for scenic views.   With the approaching setting sun, we started researching possible camping options.

Not actually expecting to find scenic free camping in the area, were thrilled to discover that the Pine Ridge campground within the Mark Twain National Forest was on a donation basis. The campground was not far off the road and only offered a few camp spots, only a couple of them suitable for RVs.  But we found one that was available and pulled in.

The next morning we received the crushing news that our Burning Man theme camp for Nomads, Camp Nomadia, was denied placement.  Too bummed to move on, we took advantage of the wooded camping for another night to sleep on the news another day. In the morning we headed on, and I remembered that a dear friend was now located in Kansas City. A quick call to touch base, and off we were for a lunch rendezvous of catching up.

Kansas

We were dreading Kansas. Our mental image was of flat land, endless roads, farms and sunflowers. Mostly we were right.  We eyed a free campground outside of Junction City, Kansas run by the Army Corp of Engineers called Rolling Hills.  It hit the Technomad Trifecta perfectly. All of the campspots were spread out along Millford Lake, each with private lake access. There was ample cellular sign. And it was free.

We stayed two nights, enjoying amazing sunsets, online catching up and relishing in the beauty that Kansas could offer. On the way out of Kansas, we went in search of Mt. Sunflower – the highest point in the state.

Colorado

We had aims to visit our friends Teresa and Andrew in Salida, Colorado. We also anticipated it would be a decent spot to put down the landing gear for a few days and enjoy a truly wonderful little mountain town.

We found perfect free boondocking just east of the city along the river with excellent cell phone coverage – again, the Trifecta manifested. We ended up staying a week – enjoying awesome microbrews, farmer’s markets, art shops, live music and hanging out with our friends. We also had a nomadic rendezvous with Cath & Andy Duncan, who were passing through town on their USA tour.

We considered the routing we would take out of Colorado to get new vistas and opted to head north up to I-70, fabled to be amazing hiway as art through the natural features. We were not disappointed – definitely some of the most beautiful interstate around.

Utah

Utah has more than its fair share of scenic driving and vistas. We’ve heard it said that you can drive an hour and visit new landscape that seems like an entirely different planet.  And it certainly seems true.

For this pass through Utah we decided to aim for Capitol Reef National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park and Cedar Breaks National Monument.  We got into Capitol Reef to discover that their first come first serve campground was already completely full at mid afternoon on a weekday.  Initially disappointed, we decided to head westward to find some of the campgrounds in the neighboring national forest.

Just as we left the park and before we reached the town of Torrey – we saw a little dirt road. Curious, we stopped and checked it out. Definitely dispersed camping on National Forest land.  We backed into a spot with an amazing view of Capitol Reef and enjoyed free boondocking for a few nights – with cellular internet from the nearby town. Amazing. And definitely a Technomad Trifecta score.  And bonus, the Persiad Meteor Shower was starting up – so we enjoyed some of the most spectacular star gazing we could possibly imagine. We literally had dozens of shooting starts per minute at peak hours.

The heat was building each day, almost tempting us to hook up the generator for air conditioning. Instead, we experimented with evaporative cooling with a water mister – to much success.  We were able to keep in the temperature to a cool 88 while the outside temperature was peaking at 98.

Onwards from Capitol Reef we experienced a new planet every few dozen miles. From red rocks, to forests, to white cliffs, to the spectacular formations of the escalante.

Absolutely jaw dropping amazing driving.

We arrived to Bryce Canyon to lots of crowds.  We entered the park just to get a few pictures and take a short hike. We had a tip on Cedar Breaks that it was similar scenery but without the crowds that we were banking on for a better experience.  And we were not disappointed at all.

We were so impressed by Cedar Breaks – both in the formations, lack of crowds  and friendly rangers – that we decided to break our free camping streak and pay for a night in the park.  We were much rewarded for this choice, as soon after making camp we had the ranger stop by and invite us to the evening’s talk about the geology of the region. The talk was interesting and informative, however spending quite a while afterwards talking with the ranger about her motivations for switching out of nursing and into geology was even more fascinating.

Nevada

Nevada is beautiful in its own right. However its monotonous series of 600+ distinct mountain ranges and valleys have caused me to call it the Crumple  Zone of the west. After going over a few passes in Nevada, you pretty much get the point.  On previous traverses, we’ve taken the Loneliest Highway – this time we wanted something different.  So, we selected the Extraterrestrial Highway, in hopes of meeting some aliens or something.

Beautiful drive, but no aliens found. Not to give up hope, we followed our GPS’s advice to take a short cut via a 40 mile dirt road across the valley into Warm Springs.  It’s always an adventure to choose an overland road – you just don’t know what you’ll find.  Nearing sunset we had dashing antelope, fox, cows and wild mustangs.   Somewhere along the way we took a wrong turn, because we ended up at a back gate of Nellis Air Force Base Bombing range.  Whoops.

Around we turned and found our correct little dirt road.  And just as we reached the turn off our GPS was telling us to take – we discovered we still had many more miles of dirt road traversing to go.  Instead of missing a sunset by driving precarious roads, we opted to stop right there and stay the night at an old mine shaft.  It wasn’t a trifecta night – as there was no cellular signal to be found. However we’re quite sure we were the only humans in the valley, and there was not a single artificial light to be seen.  Another amazing star gazing night.

In the morning we went exploring around, and found a lot of old abandonded stuff – propane tanks, a VW Beetle, a stove and more. And the most amazing find?  A huge barrel being fed by a spring full of coy fish.   Fish.  In the middle of nowhere off the ET highway in the Nevada Desert.  That’ll count as being alien enough for us !

California

We came into the backside of Yosemite and stayed a night near Mono Lake, anticipating hitting Yosemite on a Sunday afternoon in hopes of less crowds.  We were wrong, Yosmite was insanely packed making the experience pretty miserable. Guess we should have timed our visit to not be on one of the National Park free weekends.  We’ll just have to check it out at a different time of year.

We made our way to our homebase in Sacramento with Lindsay & Sean, discovering that our trailer exactly fits in their side driveway allowing us to utilize the front porch too and get off the street.  Awesome.  Our time in Sacramento was mainly spent getting our Burning Man gear out of storage.

Burning Man

We ducked down to the San Francisco Bay Area to catch up with a few folks, and then started the journey back into Nevada for Burning Man, stopping a night in Reno to meet up with Kev & Ang of NuRVers.com. It was awesome to finally cross paths with them.

We then headed down to Fallon, which is where we had run a field office for the Obama campaign the year prior. Our host family there had offered to take care of Kiki while we were at the burn. It was great to catch up with them and provision for our time on the playa.

And then off we headed towards Black Rock City, where the adventures have already been documented:

Connected at Burning Man

Camp Nomadia at Burning Man 2009

Burning Man From Start to Finish

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Pre Gate Open @ Burning Man

One of the wonderful things about early arrival and staying late at Burning Man – is that you get to experience a more complete evolution of this temporary city.  Each day at Burning Man has a different energy as the population rises and falls.

Prior to gate open, you know that everyone around you at Black Rock City has spent time building the city in anticipation of gate open. Whether it be on art projects, setting up theme camps, building center camp, working gate & perimeter or building the infrastructure. We’re all city builders.  You arrive to your camp and you have open space around you – camps several blocks over seem just a quick stroll away. Our days and nights are spent building with occasional parties to share stories of the projects we’re involved on.

And then just before 12:01a on Monday morning, we gather at the edge of the city and look at the massive line of headlights leading in from Gerlach. The party rumbles as we wait for the flood gates to open. The anticipation builds with each minute, for not much longer will we be exclusive residents of the city, it becomes open to all. All night long the virgin bell tolls as each new citizen of Black Rock City is initiated. It’s beautiful music to the ears. We retreat to our theme camps, and await greeting our first arrivals and help them get settled in.  This can take all night long.

Early in the week the population is about half of what it will peak at. The residents of Black Rock City at this point are not here just for a party. They’re here to be part of building something up too. They assist with completing the build projects the early arrival crews started on. They help open the interactive theme camps. With each hour, the landscape of the city shifts and changes. Your block becomes more a part of your immediate world, and structures you saw only hours ago are no longer visible. Camps that yesterday were a quick stroll now seem distant and remote. The streets become more chaotic with bicycles, pedestrians, art cars and new arrivals trying to find their spot.

By Thursday and Friday evening, the majority of the population is through the gates. Theme camps are roaring with activity, music, dancing, mingling, water misting and more. Most art projects are open and interactive. The nightscape of lights on the open playa is full on.

Folks who arrive for the final weekend arrive to chaos and full on energy. They don’t ramp up with it like the rest of us, they just plop themselves right in.  Most build projects at this point are done, so late week arrivals don’t have the opportunity to bond and connect with their fellow citizens in this way. They must engage their social skills to come up to speed on connections that have been ramping up with the start of the city.  Some thrive on this, others might feel overwhelmed and a bit like an outsider to a community already built.

Over the next three nights the major burns happen – usually a massive art project on Friday evening that helps build up the energy for the weekend.   Much of the population only stays for the carnival like celebration of the Man burning on Saturday evening, for that is what is seemed to be the culmination of an event called ‘Burning Man’. But for those who stick out the heat, wind and dust another day – they will be treated to the tremendous emotional release of the Temple Burn on a somber Sunday night.

And then Monday morning, the city scape looks much like pre-gate opening – expansive open lands and only those staying who intend to help with the break down of the city.

This will be my 3rd Burning Man, and Chris’s 9th. Each time I have been to Burning Man, it has been a true temporary location to park my [...]]]> As we go through the annual ritual of preparing our home to drive into the dusty playa, my mind is buzzing with thoughts of anticipation and trepidation.

This will be my 3rd Burning Man, and Chris’s 9th. Each time I have been to Burning Man, it has been a true temporary location to park my home. When people greet me with ‘Welcome Home!’ – it means something slightly different for me.  This year will be no different.

Except that we will be joined up with dozens of other like minded nomadic spirits.  We started Camp Nomadia last year, with the intentions of meeting and camping with others who are not just visiting the playa, but bringing their home there too.  Last year was a small camp.

This year, despite the challenge of being amongst the 20% of theme camps not placed due to the shrunk size of the city, our population has grown significantly and we’ve had to add an Annex. This time around, Camp Nomadia is primarily folks living a life of full time travel – or darn near it. I suppose it makes sense that not having an address is a natural beacon for nomads and vagabonds.

This year we’ll again be hosting a series of ‘Nomadic Happy Hours’ as well as a workshop on how to become technomadic. Click for our full schedule of events. If you’re attending Burning Man this year, stop on by at 6:00 & DNA and say hi!

While going to Burning Man is mostly like any other day for us – a new temporary location, new people, new experiences, living off grid, radical self reliance, leaving no trace – there is something different about it. It is the only event that is an anchor in our calendar.  I consider it my marinade for the year. The journey I soak up in one week at Burning Man has lasting seasoning throughout the year.

The journey doesn’t stop at the gate, it is meant to be shared with the world.  And the world I have experienced is meant to be shared with Burning Man.

Last year we came back from the ‘American Dream’ themed Burning Man inspired to volunteer on the Obama Campaign. We ended up in rural Nevada running a field office in Fallon. This morning we appropriately start our final leg to the playa from Fallon. Our host family from the campaign will take care of Kiki for us, while this year’s inspiration finds us.

With early arrival passes in hand, we’ll spend the weekend helping set up Pandora’s Fix-It Shoppe @ 6:00 & DNA (directly behind Center Camp), the camp that invited us in to place our main Camp Nomadia. We will be scouting out an ideal location nearby for our Camp Nomadia Annex for when the rest of our camp arrives at gate open on Monday morning.

See you on the dusty side!