Name: >Knotch<

Where I Live:
Elfrida, Arizona. Beautiful high desert just north of the border.

Been to Burning Man before? When?
Yes - 2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2014, 2015

Camped with? When?
Camp Incendiary Nation (CIN) 2008
PolyParadise 2009, 2010, 2011,2012. 2014, 2015

PolyParadise Favorite Moments? Early Arrival and Teardown. Love the “quiet” playa time after Teardown and almost everyone else in camp has headed home. Final MOOP patrol is always a special time. I try to make it to the trash fence at least once every burn. That is another special place with a nice perspective view of Black Rock City. And the other favorite moment is all the other time I spend on the playa.

Why Burning Man? I’m just going to recycle most of previous year’s comments for this section. I’ve never been anywhere like it before in the physical world but its where I live all the time in my mind and dreams. Its like stepping into the real world of an imaginary story.

Burning History: Don Davis, an astro-artist, introduced me to BM over 15 years ago through his writings on the internet. I eagerly waited for his yearly accounts and dreamed about going but, never knew for sure I’d get there. After moving to AZ in 2004, I learned of a BM regional called TOAST. We attended in 2008 and could not stop ourselves from getting tickets and going to our first burn on the Playa in 2008. I haven’t missed a year since, until 2013 when I fell off a trailer, broke my leg and severely dislocated my knee only one week after returning from BM 2012. It has taken 18 months to heal enough to feel playa-able again.

Describe BM: I can’t describe Burning Man. It is a complicated relationship for sure. BM is things, thoughts, feelings, sites, sounds, smells, experiences, memories, and dreams. It is as impossible to describe as to believe what you experience when you are there.

My Life: There was BEFORE Burning Man and then there was AFTER Burning Man for me. BM gave my inner child some finger paint and colored Sharpies and told it to go write on some walls. Getting to know me is not easy but those that do say I'm a pretty nice guy. Did I mention I love Burning Man, all of it, and you too.
>Knotch<