BOOYA!

[amberica]

I GOT 'EM!!!

(Burning Man tickets, that is... at the $185 bracket! I can't believe it took 2½ hours. Dayum.)

5:57 pm Edit: OK, it actually took almost 4 hours now that everything has been said and done. When I thought I got my tickets, I was waiting for the confirmation screen to appear after I entered my payment information. When I got home, I found out that the ticket sales server was not actually up and running until about 45 minutes after I thought i purchased. So I did it again from home and got confirmed right away!!! Yahoo!

Comments

hey

[dazed0408.livejournal.com]

what r these tickets for again? Good for u on getting them i know how excited i get when i get the tickets of my dreams :)

Re: hey

[amberica.livejournal.com]

Burning Man! w00t!!!11

Re: hey

[amberica.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I guess I already said that in the post! LOL - OK, for a better explanation, go to the website.

It's a temporary community that we build every year in the Black Rock Desert. Art, survival, NO COMMERCE. It's awesome.

Re: hey

[amberica.livejournal.com]

Haha, I'm so wordy... OK, to say a little more:

It's an annual "event/art explosion/experimental community", if you will. We build a city in the middle of nowhere, and then it disappears (as a leave-no-trace event, we "pack it in, pack it out".) It happens the week before Labor Day every year, but there is a MAD RUSH for tickets on the day they go on sale (this year, that was today) because they go in price brackets. There are only 7000 tix for $185, then 7000 for $200, 6000 for $225, and unlimited tix for $250 and $280. (The last 2 years our city population was over 35,000) The reason there are different price brackets is because it costs about $217 per person to run the whole thing, but some people can't afford to pay that much, so they are able to get lower priced tickets. (The Burning Man Organization is, however, a non-profit organization.)

The reason we Burners get SOOOO excited when we buy our tickets is because it's kind of like the official beginning of our next journey out to the desert (some people call it "Home") to see each other again and live in a way that we simply can't live anywhere else. It's really hard to explain. Really. And if anyone tries to tell you they know what it's like because they saw it on E! or Malcolm in the Middle or anything like that, they are WRONG. It's not a rave, it's not a party, or an orgy or a nudist colony... It's kind of .... well, it's Burning Man. Personally, I don't think words can describe it as well as pictures... Click here and just hit refresh a few hundred times to get a vague idea of what it's like.

Re: hey

[(Anonymous)]

I went to that website and OMg it look so amazing i could see now why you were so excited! how did you ever come about this event? This look so exciting you must have a blast when you go there :) There is this one picture that they took from a hilocopter WOW thats just awesome!!! i can't believe that many people show up there, it kinda mind blowing.. i hope you have loads of fun and take lots of pictures :)

WOW

[dazed0408.livejournal.com]

that has to be the most AMAZING thing that i ve ever seen in my life :) I know why you were so excitd now i would be too. I went to that site the pictures from that were out of this world!! Seriously how did u ever come across something like this? My favorite picture has to be from in the sky takin from a plane i think you could see the thousands of people gathered there!!! Your lucky you got your tickets :)
Looks like loads of fun.. Hope you take lots of pictures and post them on here whenever you get back from it..

Re: WOW

[amberica.livejournal.com]

I tend not to take a lot of pictures, unfortunately! I did post a picture of our shade structure - "Adaquit Headquarters" (yes, we spelled it wrong on purpose) - in one of my posts after last year.
Here is the entry. Besides that, I think Jon took a lot more pictures. I supposed I could upload them...

Watch my journal, maybe if I get some umption in my gumption I'll do some image posting!