Moving around the muddy desert is almost impossible, but spirits remain high, despite the lamentable state of the toilets
They manage to pull their RV on to the nearest road, leaving two bicycles on the ground and their RV slides extended, while cutting huge berms in the mud and sideswiping another attendee’s truck. Thirty feet later, they are stuck.
The normally dry lakebed that is home to Burning Man – an annual festival dedicated to art, counterculture and self-survival in the desert – had turned into an expanse of muck that clung to boots and tires, making moving almost impossible. According to organizers, the festival site received more than a half inch of rain overnight.
Every few blocks are a bank of portable toilets in various states of abuse: 80% full or worse, with various trash thrown in them – a juice box here, a plastic grocery bag there. Two empty hospital urine collection jars are littered around a unit overflowing with mud, as a woman walks over with two more full jars.
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