California Travel Tips
Blazing Summer
Published on: August 22, 2016
- This week thousands of Californians trek to Black Rock City, Nevada for the annual Burning Man festival August 28-September 5. Transporting their art cars, crazy costumes and one-of-a-kind sculptures to the desert, they celebrate imagination & innovation — but they also count on a tradition. It’s called THE MAN BURNS (left photo) and it happens on the 3rd of September.
- In just a few days Sand City’s West End Festival celebrates music, food and art on Aug.26-28, 2016. Artisans keep the fires burning as they create designs out glass heated by intense flames. The Kick-off party launches with Maria Muldaur, known for “Midnight at the Oasis”. Her hit song describes a scene much like the desert oasis where Burning Man takes place.
- While firefighters work to extinguish wild blazes throughout the state, vacationers grab the last rays at California’s beaches this week and next. They bathe in the glow of the life-sustaining sun which burns at 15 million degrees F. and cools to a balmy 7,800 degrees F. in its chromosphere. It takes eight minutes for light & heat from the largest object in the solar system (approx. 93 million miles from Earth) to reach us.
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