It may be an irony of modern life: Partying with 70,000 others in Burning Man's desert dust may be the best chance many go-go professionals have to truly unplug.
First they have to get there.
This week, tens of thousands of people are flocking toward the remote Nevada desert for the freewheeling Burning Man festival, some hitchhiking cross country to live in wind-whipped tents. Others arrive via private jet and pay handsomely for a week of air-conditioned RV-ing with concierge service. For a week starting Sunday, tens of thousands of attendees will create what will temporarily be the state's sixth-largest city as they immerse themselves in nudity, DIY art and an anything-goes attitude. The experience, drug-enhanced or not, is cherished as a week free from the high-tech shackles of modern life, or what some attendees term the "Default World." A massive topless bicycle parade is among the event's longest-running traditions, and there's a dust-controlled orgy dome that's exactly what you think it is. Things will be set on fire...
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