The Burning Man Festival outside Reno, NV is one the most talked-about counter-cultural events in America. In these anecdotes, Saul captures the surreal nature of the event, and gives us a glimpse of how magic mushrooms, an aerial bondage show, and the Human Carcass Wash, can all add up to one transformative week.
"At the end of August 2009, I found myself in a car with three strangers, hurtling non-stop across the country, from Philadelphia to Monterey, and then to the Burning Man Festival outside Reno, NV. I'd been wanting to go to Burning Man for years, but had always put it off. This year, finally, I'd bought a ticket. With just a Survival Guide, a borrowed tent, a week's worth of food, and three strangers I'd met through an online ride-share, I considered there to be a small, though not unreasonable, possibility that I might not survive the trip..."