Black Rock City, Nevada 89412 - Google Maps!!!

Did you know that Black Rock City actually has a post office?


Burning Man IS a real city, not an Utopian place, and its zip code is 89412!!! If you look for it on Google Maps, you can even spot Black Rock City's location, but you have to zoom in and look very carefully to spot it.

This is how the Playa looks like from above with Google Maps, and a decent zoom - it was not easy to spot the exact location in the area, I had to beat the map almost inch by inch to find Black Rock City!!!



Then you give the zoom a last click, et voila' - ladies and gentlemen, geniouses and weirdos, here is Black Rock City in all its airview splendor!



You actually get two Black Rock Cities in one shot - the South-western one is the previous location of Black Rock City, up to Burning Man 2004. From Burning Man 2005 on the site moved a little bit up, as you can see.

You can zoom in a lot, and explore Black Rock City - this one below is a nice view from above centered at Center Camp, with the Esplanade and all. You can zoom in upo to see the flags!



This definitely is Burning Man 2006, with the rotating Man and the Maze below, you can see it clearly if you zoom your way up to pay the Man a visit - but the deep zoom doesn't have a good quality, I'm afraid. Here is another nice shot from above.



Now you can ask Google Maps driving directions straight to Center Camp! Don't come saying you got lost... in this case you need this map! =)


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NOWHERE 2007 Google Maps!

After several summers spent in California, this year I finally managed to spend a beautiful European summer, hanging out in Italy, France and Spain - and of course, since I was around, I couldn't miss NOWHERE, the European Burning Man event managed by the crazy posse of the Euroburners, with which I finally hooked up after many BM connections in California and United States.

NOWHERE rocks. There are a lot of rocks, too... NO WHERE, NOW HERE, NOWHERE. The place really is in the middle of nowhere, check out the Google Map here below...



OK, that was a joke, but to an extend... as a matter of fact, this other map here below is exactly the same map, only that I switched from "satellite view" to "map view" using the tab on the map - try on your own, you'll see...



Still looks like in the middle of nowhere? Of course, what were you expecting? The difference with the US nowhereness of Black Rock City is that while the European burn camp really is isolated, you can drive just 12 km (less then 10 miles) to get to small villages with pretty much everything you need. Yes, at Nowhere decommodification still is up, and still there are dust storms, but how about diving in the river nearby during the peek heat hours?

I really loved NOWHERE, and also the people that I've met, coming from all over Europe, some of them also from the US, including Burning Man Vip celebrity $teven Ra$pa! Of course I will return to Nowhere in 2008...

If you look at the map below, you will realize how central Nowhere is in Europe - North of Zaragoza, easy access and driving distance from Spain, France, Switzerland - and cheap flights from Italy, Germany, Netherlands, UK and all over, I flew Ryanair to Zaragoza from Rome with just 48 Euro total (60 bucks)!


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Now that you know where Nowhere and Nowhereland are there are no more excuses - get your Nowhere 2008 tickets at www.goingnowhere.org and stay tuned with the Euroburners site!
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