Burning Man, part 3

Back at Techno Ghetto, I look at the What Where When guide. I’m determ­ined to find some things and do some­thing on the pro­gram, just to show it’s pos­sible. I find that there is a live, life-size ver­sion of Set­tlers of Catan at Hex Camp, with pick-up games at 2pm every day. I head over there and find people ready for a game, including 

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(*waves*).

The game is bril­liant. Each resource is a little toy or a sheaf of canes wrapped together for ”grain”.

The robber was George Bush. 

Halfway through the game, someone sug­ges­ted we remove the desert hex and just have the desert itself show through. Many people passed and laughed at that. This photo is me having declared a sheep mono­poly shortly after my oppon­ents got many many sheepses:

Afterwards, 

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and I head to the ”park”, a shaded pyr­amid of sod at 5.15 and Estu­ary and from there to the Lost Pen­guin Café where we drink red wine and eat chocol­ate caramels.