I'm one of those kooky desert people. I love the Black Rock Desert, and have been studying it to move there shortly. It's near Reno, Nevada, too, so I can gamble!
Neat! What's there to do there?  Nevada isan interesting place.
Well, it's a desert, so it's a sort of arid region, and it's made up of these cool lava beds/alkali flats. It's found in the Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation, so it's a playa that has a lot of historic trails. So, it's a great place to enjoy nature.
Wow! Do you know how long this area has been preserved? It's nice there are trails for tourists to enjoy!
Since 2000, through the Black Rock Desert–High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area Act of 2000. But what should be mentioned is how it hosts the famous Burning Man festival every year, which is another activity/big gathering.
Fascinating! I have heard about the famous BurningMan festival. It must have been in a movie. I had no idea it was there! 
Yeah.. Everything about Burning Man is fascinating. It's hosted at a temporary city called Black Rock City, north/northeast of Reno. It's a bit of an enigma to outsiders, but the late summer event is a sort of wild experiment regarding community and art that follow 10 principles that I can go into detail later.
Sounds interesting! It's a big event that markets the desert region well! How long has the festival existed?
symbolic ritual burning of a large wooden effigy ("The Man") that traditionally occurs on the Saturday evening of the event.First held in 1986 on Baker Beach in San Francisco as a small function organized by Larry Harvey and Jerry James who built the first "Man", it has since been held annually, spanning from the last Sunday in August to the first Monday in September (Labor Day). The 2019 event will run from August 25 to September 2.At Burning Man, the community explores various forms of artistic
thing to do ... I was dreadfully lonely; I was living alone in the desert and had been for too long, really, and I felt that isolation very severely after a while, and it's probably a version of self-pity, I'm sorry to say, to have publicly said something like that, but there it is, I said it, turns out I wasn't telling the truth – I didn't know it at the time."
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