I'm leaving for Black Rock City tonight!

[mama bear]

I'm leaving for Black Rock City tonight!

wow....

[gaining ground]

I'm leaving for Black Rock City tonight!

Huge drug party

[Lo0p]

I'm leaving for Black Rock City tonight!

sunshinedaisies;946873 wrote: I already asked MB and no-one has explained it to me...... !!
No one can really. I can't. I could write a million word essay and show you a billion pictures...you just have to go.

gaining ground;947071 wrote: Huge drug party

Anyone who thinks that doesn't belong there.

People that suffer from addictions don't need an excuse or a reason to use. BurningMan would be a perfect one, but so is a bad day at work and so is a good day at work :H and on and on and on...

I am one of the first and very few people on this earth who no longer suffers from addiction. I am cured, thanks to a couple of brilliant doctors and to those of you that came before me.

OMG I've got to finish packing!!!!

[Sunnyvalenting]

I'm leaving for Black Rock City tonight!

I am so glad you are cured but I don't really think you are one of the first and few! Many people over the history of addiction have experienced recovery and cure. there, in fact, seems to be about a 5%/year spontaneous cure rate. I, too, am thankful to those doctors who helped find bac, one of many ways to recover. We always laude the last thing we tried which is what worked for us. It is like finding the keys the last place you looked.
Bac is certainly more effective than time tho.
Have a wonderful trip
Sunny

[muchthought]

I'm leaving for Black Rock City tonight!

Goodness golly - I will pray for you!!!! But have a great time and enjoy the mind blowing art scene. I am in Northern CA and have friends that go. Takes them awhile to recover. Bac be strong - I really want to know how well your indifference to AL holds, LoOp, please let us know how strong the cravings and the amounts you drink. This is a medical thing, not a will power thing, and I really want to know how it works.

[muchthought]

I'm leaving for Black Rock City tonight!

I should have added: I really want to know how it works in the modern equivalent of Woodstock. At this point, way too much temptation for me.

[Lo0p]

I'm leaving for Black Rock City tonight!

Sure! I'll tell you all what happens with regard to Al. But honestly, I already know. I've already tested myself. I am tested everyday.

I sleep with bottles of wine in my room, the SAME 4 bottles that have been there since like November. I'm still shacked up with the parents, although more now because they need my help than vice versa. Regardless, our liquor cabinet is stocked full of a plethora of whatever you might want. My dad drinks all the time. My mom drinks like once a week and has a drink or two. I drink even less than that.

My personal rule remains the same: I drink whenever I want to however much I want. I NEVER EVER try not to drink because of a craving. I am also practicing TSM in which this is how I should drink.

I just never want to anymore.

I just went on a 5 day camping trip with my family and the same friends that I go to BurningMan with. Everybody was drinking. I drank as much as I wanted to, actually I drank as much as I could because I was trying to push TSM along and thought it was a great opportunity to do so.

Grand total for the trip: 2 beers! And it took me 6 hours to get the second one down. It was an apricot ale and I even cut up a bunch of strawberries and oranges and grapes in there to make it tantalizing. I ended up eating the fruit and cutting up more and putting it in there. The apricot ale gave it a wonderful flavor!

I ended up being pissed that they had 5 freaking ice chests FULL of beer and there wasn't any room for my diet sodas!

So you see, it's not really going to be a test at all.

[Lo0p]

I'm leaving for Black Rock City tonight!

Okay I'm out! I love you all and if I don't make it back just know that I went out in style!!! (I'll be back )

[Lo0p]

I'm leaving for Black Rock City tonight!

I'll absolutely post some photos as soon as I can clear them with the people that I'm with (privacy/anonymity concerns).

I had the time of my life!! One thing is for certain now, I had to see it myself to believe it. I have found "my way out."

There's a lot more info to come but here's a teaser:

Units of alcohol by 24 hour period starting Monday:

Mon: 0
Tue: 7 (all throughout the day and night, never even caught a buzz)
Wed: 7 (same)
Thu: 0
Fri: 0
Sat: 0
Sun: 0
Mon: 0

[tiptronic_ct]

I'm leaving for Black Rock City tonight!

Way to go Lo0p!!!

Proud of ya!

[Lo0p]

I'm leaving for Black Rock City tonight!

A Sneak Preview

I haven't been able to contact all of my friends and get permission to post pictures that they appear in. And I also have not been able to to get the pictures from everybody's cameras yet (this is a problem every year).

But here is a sneak preview, most are our pictures but I pulled a few from burningman.com of things that I saw but didn't get pictures of:

My crew. The girl who's face is smilied out is a beautiful girl but has anonymity concerns. She is an engineer who designs unmanned aerial vehicles (think: predator drones) and works for a company who contracts with the US Department of Defense.


I gotta admit, I had a crush on this beautiful girl, she is called "bliss dance":

[Lo0p]

I'm leaving for Black Rock City tonight!




Me and a very, very good, close friend:


Just me:


Someone breathing it all in:


The man:

[Lo0p]

I'm leaving for Black Rock City tonight!

I just stumbled across this one night:




Me, nearly bailing at the rollerskating rink on Thursday I believe:


Trying to catch my breath:


Me and the best friend anyone could ever ask for. He is a grad student working on his PhD at Johns Hopkins and also how I get access to all of that research and medical studies and stuff. I keep him apprised of the haps in our world but he's an English buff and not a science geek like me:

[Lo0p]

I'm leaving for Black Rock City tonight!

Yes, those are kilts:



Some people spend their whole lives trying to do this. They've got a phone booth out in the middle of the desert with a direct line. Who knew?


The Temple:


The Temple is an extremely sacred place for us. We burn it down on the very last night, the night after the man. It is where you can 'let things go' if you are ready:

[Lo0p]

I'm leaving for Black Rock City tonight!

All throughout the week we travel there and leave things that we can no longer carry with us in our lives. People write letters and messages to loved ones who are no longer with them:


You can leave your regrets there as well:



Have you ever been in a crowd of 50,000 people where all you can hear is the wind? The silence is deafening. When the Temple starts to burn and you begin to feel the heat of the fire more than the heat off the bodies of your brothers and sisters around you all of a sudden someone cries out: "I'll see you when I get there okay Mom I love you!" and "You're free Johnny, you can go now. Fly home.":


And then, the day after the temple burns we have to go. You take everything that you brought and more. You do your absolute best to leave the playa the way you found it. And what for one week was the 4th largest city in Nevada disappears without a trace: