I brought my Trombone to the playa and played with the Black Rock Philharmonic - a 70-ish person symphony orchestra that comes together to perform at Burning Man each year.

I’ve long wanted to make some sort of fun art bike, and finally built one for Burning Man this year.

On night mid burn week, I was out exploring with some camp friends and ended up getting triggered by some sexual expression that left me in a short panic attack; crouched unseen with my knees in my arms, my nervous system reliving how scared and violated I felt when I was assaulted a few years ago.

While in Berlin, I joined up on a local film photo-walk meetup organized by Lomography and met a bunch of people walking around with film cameras hung over their shoulders. There seemed to be a resurgence in popularity for analog photography which I enjoyed..

Back in July, I spent 2 weeks in Berlin. I really loved the fact that I never once had to get into a car the entire time I was in the city - train from the airport, the U/S-bahn took me anywhere I needed to go, and it was delightful to bike around as well.

The day after stopping in Lake City to resupply on food, IMade my my way up to the highest elevation point on the Colorado Trail

There were two other art cars at the Desert Hearts Festival this year. One was a big pineapple, which I’d also seen at Dirtybird Campout in 2019. The other was a big dragon that could shoot fire out of its mouth.

This was in the afternoon of the last full day I was on the Colorado Trail last summer - I finished the trail the next day after hiking for a month.

Last summer, I thru-hiked the Colorado Trail and brought along my Olympus OM-1 35mm film camera. Here’s a few shots from a roll of Kodak Ultramax 400 which I exposed in the miles surrounding Molas Lake.

I stopped in LA and stayed with my friend Trina for a few days while I was on my way down through California headed to the Desert Hearts festival.

I stopped by the Black Rock Desert and spent a night camped out on the Playa on my road trip back up to Seattle.

One thing I’ve enjoyed about Desert Hearts fest and Dirtybird campout are the art cars that they attract and let in. The @kuker.art.car (look em up on ig) was at Desert Hearts festival this year and I enjoyed chatting with the folks behind it - a cool and friendly group of Bulgarian burners from LA. This is the second incarnation of this art car and its styled as an ancient pagan Bulgarian Ritual Dancer to scare away evil spirits and provide good harvest, health, and happiness :)

My first stop on my road trip home after the Desert Hearts Festival was Joshua Tree National Park. I drove out there from the festival as a nice stop to decompress in quiet nature after such a fun sensory overload :) I spent one night there and went for a hike the next morning before it got too hot.