$10k?!? Holy! Did you do an art installation, buy an RV (we have thought about doing so, versus renting the CruiseAmerica barges every year) ...or did the one of the casinos on the way to or from the playa pull you in with a tractor beam?

Harrah's zapped us with a tractor beam on the way from BRC last year, nearing Reno at about 9pm and just as exhausted and begrimed as could be after taking down both the Big Round Cubatron art installation and two camps. Endless hot showers were welcomed. I think everyone escaped unscathed from the slot machines the next day, thanks mainly to a remarkable buffet breakfast and noon flights for all the 20-somethings. We did manage (finally after several years of intending to go) to see the National Automobile Museum just a block from Harrah's. An easy walk across the river bridge vfrom Harrah's to the car museum. Wonderful place! Fascinating old cars from the earliest steam-powered wagons to Grapes-Of-Wrath-mobiles to outrageous '50's-era Hollywood glamour boats. Well worth the time to schedule in a couple hours to half a day for if in Reno.

Hi Holly-

If 'yal make it in to Anchorage this afternoon then please do find other Alaska Burners and Burners-to-be gathering at the sculpture of the sun located behind the Performing Arts Center downtown, at 5:30pm, for the First Friday art walkabout. We will be looking at the ice sculptures on the other side of the PAC and strolling around downtown together.