Let’s just get all the anxieties out of the way before we leave. Teri worries her late flight will be too late and I worry my (previously broken) back won’t survive the mattress, so i get shots in my back. We peruse our lists. Have we forgotten anything? Have we packed too much? We perseverate […]
Kathy Baker
Silver Burners-We Have Been Placed!
“We have been placed!!! 4:45 and Jove. Co grata everyone. And they have us more space – 150×50 feet,” wrote our camp leader Sara, who has been to Burningman multiple times and appreciates the extra space in this city in the Black Rock Desert. Our camp sits on the outer rim of the horseshoe and […]
Silver Burners
We have been like little giggling schoolgirls ever since we began our plans to go to Burningman (google www.Burningman.org). Two gray-haired virgin burners with a penchant for costumes and design, watching every video we can possibly watch; reading all the “Jackrabbit Speaks” newsletters that arrive in our e-mail boxes; rabidly perusing Pinterest for ideas on […]
Camp Envy–Traditions
The evolution of the new Maqua traditions began with the previous owners, Bob and Luanne Sukenik. Their hot dog and champagne cook-outs, with a Native Indian theme, hosted many friends and family members with water relay races and games. (One year they invited us, long before we bought the lodge […]
Camp Envy–Opening Up
THE ROADSIDE PORCH ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE LODGE I wish for the magic of an energetic crew to appear to help me dust the cobwebs, tear down the screen tarps that protect our wood floors from winter snow and mop the winter dirt off the porches of the lodge. The pollen from the […]
Camp Envy-Bunk Houses and Outbuildings
Those musty wooden huts had to be a little frightening for little girls who had never left their homes. Bunking in with seven others, sometimes all strangers and accompanied by mosquitoes and spiders, had to leave lasting memories. Many of those little bunkhouses are still standing, but a few were removed from the property before […]