Can we talk about toilets? One of the sayings at Burning Man is that the playa provides. In our case that meant tea and toilets. I know we rented an RV, but with three people who wanted to shower at least once or twice, and only 50 gallons of water for the week, conservation was in order. Thus it was decided to utilize Porta Potties during the day, and none of us were looking forward to that part, for obvious reasons.
Luckily for us, our camp was near four compostable toilets, which I believe Burning Man is in the process of testing. There were five metal steps up the toilets, which were located off the ground, each with a container underneath. I'm not sure how they accomplished this but there was no fluid (like that weird smelling blue water that was in the rest of the Porta Potties) that the waste went into and no smell, or hardly any. We started calling them air bidets, because of the cool little breeze that blew up our knickers when we sat down. Perhaps that was part of how they accomplished no smell, and maybe microbes they added? And some blessed soul cleaned them every morning. As Porta Potties go, I'd give them a 10/10.
Since the theme of Burning Man this year was Curiouser and Curiouser from Alice in Wonderland, two of our campmates wanted to throw an impromptu tea party, though they had no tea cups and no tea. Luckily, I'd thrown in a half empty box of tea in a bin at the last moment and we also found tea bags at Center Camp in a gifting corner, which had things like band aids and aspirin, needle and thread, and... tea. At Elaine's suggestion, we set about making tea cups from paper cups that were provided in the coffee camp for the people who didn't have their reusable cup with them. She made handles and decorations from white duct tape and I drew images and wrote sayings from Alice in Wonderland. Voila! The playa provides.
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