Donning Costumes and Shedding Stereotypes in the Dessert

I'm probably the last person anyone would expect to say this, but this year I went to Burning Man. Friends had been trying to get me to go for years -- ever since I moved to San Francisco, honestly -- but I'd been avoiding it because I never really "got" it. I do now. While Burning Man is a bit of a phenomenon in the Bay area (having been born there), my limited knowledge of the event had me thinking it was mostly about drugs and drinking and partying, and so, not being into any of those things,...