New member y'all...where the expat Burners at?

[Maery Clarity]

Hey y'all!

Wanted to introduce myself and say hello...46 year old female, Deadhead, Burner, heading down to the Yucatan in a few weeks to create a new co-operative community project and festival in December of this year. Will post links and suchall later, for now it's all about HELLO...and hoping to hear of other expats that are involved with Burning Life!

currently over here in the wilds of SC USA, hate the winter and can't wait to never experience it again....

We're going to be driving a big old box truck that we've kitted out to be our home when we arrive...can't wait to do this thing!

Peace, love an' can't wait to join y'all in Mexico!!
-Me

[DennyDaddy]

Hi all you all.....

Come up down

DD

[chicois8]

You had better find out the size of truck you can bring into Mexico, I thought a 3/4 ton was the largest.
but I could be wrong...good luck

[edgeee]

i hope the truck doesn't smoke.
give a hoot, don't pollute.

[Isla Verde]

Originally Posted by Maery Clarity

Hey y'all!

Wanted to introduce myself and say hello...46 year old female, Deadhead, Burner, heading down to the Yucatan in a few weeks to create a new co-operative community project and festival in December of this year. Will post links and suchall later, for now it's all about HELLO...and hoping to hear of other expats that are involved with Burning Life!

Welcome to the Forum and to Mexico.
Not sure what a Deadhead, Burner is though. Please enlighten me.

[TundraGreen]

Originally Posted by Isla Verde

Welcome to the Forum and to Mexico.
Not sure what a Deadhead, Burner is though. Please enlighten me.

Grateful Dead (a rock group) follower?
Burning Man (an annual event in the Nevada desert) follower?

[xabiachica]

Originally Posted by TundraGreen

Grateful Dead (a rock group) follower?
Burning Man (an annual event in the Nevada desert) follower?

I had to google it

[Uecker_seats]

Enjoy your Yucatan experiance! I'm envious!

[Maery Clarity]

Hey y'all!

Thanks for all the welcomes and advice.

@ Edgeee, fear not, we are very good little environmentalists around here...the truck is not my part of this project, but it is a diesel that has been gone over and improved for best milage/least emissions, and when we get where we're going part of the game plan is to be able to grow enough oil palms to run it in an eco-friendly manner.

Personally I'm looking forward to moving to a place where I can make better use of the original eco-friendly transport and ATV's...human power and donkey power.

@ Isla Verde, I have to admit that I was somewhat surprised and had to blink for a moment or two at the idea that there were many folks who don't know what a Deadhead or Burner is, but as a part of the artistic community in the USA all of my life, I suppose I've become accustomed to those things and people that have held interest for me.

The Grateful Dead was indeed a musical group, although I don't know if they'd be defined as a Rock band, but that is splitting hairs...the more important part of the phenomenon that occurred associated with their artistic endeavors, the part that makes people call themselves "Deadheads", is not the music of the group themselves, but the truly unique folk art forms and supportive creative community that grew up associated with it.

It's more about a way of artistic thinking than it is about listening to the music of a band, but it's all rather difficult to explain and probably sort of technical if you aren't an artist or involved with the arts, yourself.

The same is true of Burning Man, which is a huge collective artistic movement that is most visible as an event that is held in the desert of Nevada every year, with 50,000+ attendees.

Since y'all are not familiar with these events and art cultures, I'd like to state for the record that mainstream media focuses on these things primarily for the shock value associated, since it makes MUCH better press than a dry and boring discussion of folk art culture and interests, and, that much is made of the most extreme examples that can be found associated with what are at their baselines artistic interest groups.

Therefore, most of what you'll find discussed about "Deadheads" is that they're a bunch of useless pot smoking, LSD dropping freaks who never take a bath and who followed the Grateful Dead around with mindless fanaticism...which isn't true.

Most of what you'll find discussed about Burning Man is that they are a bunch of weirdos who like to go out to the desert every year, take all their clothes off and cover themselves in glitter, eat handfuls of happy pills and dance to techno music until they die of heatstroke. Also not true.

What they both are, are artistic collective movements, where creative people can find each other and explore ideas and concepts both material and esoteric, which leads to a lot of growth for those of us involved with the arts in all its forms.

Everyone always wants to know where artists get their ideas, and the short answer is that we get our best ideas when we can get together and collaborate.

However, I surely didn't mean to get into a complex discussion about all this with y'all, and hope I haven't been boring...just wanted to say "howdy" and that I have lots of questions about our actual logistics of the move to the Yucatan, and to introduce myself and thank y'all for this forum and all the help and information it's providing for so many people.

Thanks y'all, and have a great day!
-Me

[Isla Verde]

Originally Posted by Maery Clarity

Hey y'all!

Wanted to introduce myself and say hello...46 year old female, Deadhead, Burner, heading down to the Yucatan in a few weeks to create a new co-operative community project and festival in December of this year.

Will you be working with Mexicans on this community project and festival or just with other artists from the US?