BurningMan, India Style - Part 2

Varanasi (Saturday, Sept. 2)

We've ended up with only 2 days pre-burn prep time in Varanasi. For the first I was confined to bed getting over a few-day, feverish case of food poisoning and Darin was left to scout for supplies. The second I was well enough to work and we spent the entire day on the terrace of our Ganga (holy Ganges river) view guest house, constructing our Man and waterproofing a basket in which to launch him onto the river. This last is our Indian improvisation as it's typical to float candle offerings on the Ganga at sunset. We attracted alot of interest and provided several explanations over the course of the day about what BurningMan IS and why it's so important to us to make such effort to celebrate from afar. The creative process felt great as did the actual building of it all ourselves, since this is also such a big part of our process back home in the months leading up to the main event.

All day we played the "What are our friends doing on the Playa NOW?" game and got endless smiles and laughs as we remembered special moments including each and every member of our camp. In the process, we made four NEW friends here in Varanasi who want to share the Burn with us.