RENO, Nev. — The only limit to free expression at the Burning Man festival is imagination … and that dust that always gets into the electronics.
Except when it rains. That’s when “Burners” end up in the parking lot of the Reno Walmart.
Turned back at the gate to the Black Rock Desert after rare showers Monday turned the ancient lake bottom to a muddy quagmire, hundreds of “Burners” were forced to spend the night on a Walmart blacktop. Nearly 100 others waited across the street at the Grand Sierra Resort casino parking lot.
“We’re just trying to stay positive,” said a woman from Oakland, Calif., who identified herself only as “Driftwood.”
Before the go-ahead came after midnight,
the rain delay provided for one silver lining.
“We have a list of 27 things we need to get at Wal-Mart,” said Barbara Quintanilla of Houston.
