Burning Man Anyone?

The Burning Man celebration is a week-long annual event that began in San Francisco in 1986 and has been, for many years now, relocated in the desert of northern Nevada. It begins the last Monday in August, and ends the first Monday in September, which happens to be American Labor Day holiday.

The culmination of the week-long festivities is the ritual burning of a large wooden structure that is supposed to represent a man. It happens the last Saturday of that eventful week. More than 50,000 people attend the event and bring their own floats, costumes and crazy performances.

Our next door neighbors, who are in their late 30s, attend the event every year and I wonder if we shouldn't not joint them next year, before we are mentally and physically much too old to participate. As I always say: We'll see...