Rain Delays Burning Man Voyagers at Reno Wal-Mart
Hundreds of travelers on the road to Burning Man in their quest for oneness with nature and celebration of self-expression on a peaceful playa in northern Nevada’s desert didn’t expect to spend their first night in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart or Reno resort casino.
But most were taking it in stride and were largely optimistic — as so-called “Burners” are apt to be — that the gates to the counterculture event would reopen Tuesday after rare rain showers in the Black Rock Desert turned the ancient lake bottom to a muddy quagmire the day before.
“You take it as it comes,” said Mark Vanlerberghe, who left San Jose, Calif., in an RV that he ended up parking Monday at the Wal-Mart for the night when he heard the access road to the remote festival site was closed.
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