I have always wanted to go. But I just can’t afford it, and there is no way in hell my wife would go. (hey, maybe she can watch the kids…)
Ditto - my wife would never go. I can hear it now… :eek: HONEY! THAT WOMAN HAS NO CLOTHES ON! OMG :eek: THAT MAN DOESN’T EITHER!
HEEEEY!! WAIT A MINUTE!!
Guys, you want me to get my wife to talk to your wives? She let me go by myself last year and she’s letting me go alone again this year.
Of course, I didn’t mention anything about nekkid ladies.
I doubt that I would ever go.
Haven’t been yet, but I’d love to go. It’s on my list. So many things to experience, so little time.
One major trip a year is enough for me. Just (literally a few minutes ago) flew back from Denvention 3, the 66th Worldcon in Denver and boy are my arms tired.
Wait - there are going to be HIPPIES there?? I thought it was just about free love and drugs and mother earth and stuff.
It’s one of those things I’ve thought about for several years but haven’t had the money or inclination to get myself there. If I go, though, I could get my first tattoo.
Nah.
There are some hippies there, but it’s not specifically a hippie festival. Most of the hippies I know personally are starting to give up on it due to the increasing frat-boy/yuppie vibe. It’s not a music festival like Woodstock (although there’s music there) or a psychedelic festival like Starwood (although there’s psychedelia there) or a neopagan festival like PSG (although that’s there too.) It’s first and foremost an *art *festival. Not art like you’ll see it in a nice safe contained gallery in SoHo, but art nonetheless.
But yeah, with 35,000+* people who can all take at least a long weekend off work, you’re gonna find some hippies. 
*I wonder what those numbers will look like this year. In the past, attendance has gone up, dramatically, every year. But this year, every festival I’ve attended has suffered a loss in attendance. Money’s tight this year, it seems, and gas prices are making people stay home.
Oh yes, I think numbers will be down, but not necessarily dramatically. I have seen some amazing things at Burning Man, but I’ve seen amazing things at other more accessable “Art” exhibitions as well. I liked Burning Man because it brought some of the attendees down to the primal level of art. That is what’s cool to me about BM. That and running into a man dressed as a leopard, on a tricycle, with a flourescent green monkey tied to his leg…at 3am. I don’t need drugs to make *that * far out.