The year was 2018 and I was so excited because my wife had just gifted me a SNOGO as a Playa gift at Burning Man.  It was love at first sight! My new favorite party accessory! I literally ran into my friends’ dome, jumped into their inflatable bed with them and pulled out my brand new gold SNOGO and….immediately dropped it into the sheets! No big deal, we’ll find it, right? Nope. The fucking thing disappeared. We stripped the bed, we moved the bed, we took everything out of the dome. We even sifted through the playa around the tent, but it was gone. Like Vanished before your very eyes GONE. So just like that. I never even got to use it! Gone to the winds of sand and time.

….Only to be found 2 months later in San Francisco, buried in my friend’s silk bandana which was buried in her Burning man box. So, WTF????  We’ll never know.

Since getting it back from the silk bandana, I’ve literally had it on me every day. So of course I brought it back to a Burning Man this year (2022) where I resided in Vertical camp. Vertical camp is an 8 story steel structure with over 60 elevated bedrooms, constructed of over 20,000 pounds of scaffolding. To my horror, on day 3, I dropped it from the top floor of the structure, and this time I knew it was gone. I couldn’t even search for it. It had fallen through a crack and then down through multiple stories of people and rooms. I had to accept it. It was really GONE.  

After the man burned, and three solid days of blood, sweat and tears breaking down vertical camp and laying thousands of pounds of scaffolding on a 100’x100’ blanket, we’re sorting through the steel and I hear this ting ting sound, like a small object dropping through the steel. And what lands at my feet?!  My fucking SNOGO!!! Call it Playa magic! What are the chances?

That is what gives me peace with the Universe. My SNOGO and the forces that be that reunite me with it.  Anyways- I thought it was funny so I wrote in.”