After getting a proper 8 hours sleep it's time to write down my thoughts about Emergence last weekend. What a fantastic psytrance party it was! My account of the experience begins Friday night as Micah and I went out to the desert to scope out the location one last time before bringing out all the gear. All the roads were in great condition, the sky was cloudless, and the air was cool. Saturday night promised to have equally as good of weather. We checked out the "windmill spot" and found exactly what we were hoping for. No campers at that site nor anyone at another site within earshot of the sound system. Quite a bit of grass had grown over the whole site and it appears no one had camped there in quite a while. There weren't too many shot up appliances around and very few shotgun shells were on the ground. The area would need a little work, but site cleanup and preparation ended up being very easy. We then headed for our backup location to check it out. Again, no sight of campers anywhere. This camp site I've dubbed "Dos Saguaros" and will definitely be used for a future Circuits of Consciousness event. We then headed home with a glowing feeling about the following nights party. We arrived back at Overmind HQ to finish loading all the gear into the van. With the van loaded and locked it was time to get a few hours sleep before heading back in the morning.

I woke up around 8am and proceeded to send out directions. I loaded my personal stuff into Micah's truck since I would be driving the already packed cargo van. We then headed around the block to Water & Ice for of course, water and ice. Next stop, gasoline. We filled up the gas cans, the van and then stopped at Basha's for some last minute food and drink.

We arrived at the location shortly after noon. This time a truck was parked there but nobody was around. A couple minutes later the owner shows up and is obviously pissed off that we are there. He had been hunting for birds in the area. At this point we had not unloaded any gear and only Micah and myself were there walking around the site. We tried to have a conversation with the dude but he wouldn't listen. He told us he was going to call the game warden and the police on us for "encroaching" on his campsite. He then got into his truck and took off. Confident in our right to be there, on public land, we pulled out a couple chairs and I cracked open a cold beer. We wanted to wait around for a law enforcement officer to show up before we started unloading any "party" gear. During that time we set up campsite related items and built the fire pit. About two hours went by and the cops never showed up. It was decided that it would be fine to go ahead and start setting up the sound. So we did.