More than 70,000 people are about to build an entire city in the Nevada desert, haul in their own water to survive and then tear the whole thing down and work to leave no trace. Burning Man opens its gates at 12:01 a.m. this Sunday on a dry lakebed two hours north of Reno, the same spot it has used since 1990, and there are no commercial food vendors inside the city. Even the road in has changed.
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