Right past the greeters.

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About a quarter mile past the ticket station is the greeter station. These are volunteers who welcome you to Burning Man and make sure you know what your in for.
They mention or ask several things.
Do you have water and food? Shelter?
Don’t put anything that does not come out of your body into the porta poties.
Are you with a theme camp? (in our case since I was the first one there for Rainforest Refugees, they took me to another guy who made sure we set up in the correct place.)

The first thing a greete says is welcome home. Kinda funny since 3 of the 4 of us had never been. But it actually makes since to me. Just because you had never been there does not mean its not your home.

My greeter was a woman somewere between the age of 25 and 35 I would guess. She was wearing combat boots and orange stretch panties and nothing else. She was having a blast. But she did get serious when she asked all the important questions or talked about the porta poties.

They have a bell you can ring if you want for virgin burners. And if you ask they will give you a spanking. It use to be tradition that virgins got a spanking there first time, but alas someone sued and it’s no more. (to some of us the man represents Lawyers and we burn that SOB down!)

The greeters is were the party starts. They are having a blast and make sure you do too. Having fun is very contagious and it started right there at the greeters. It was like ok here is the rules…first have fun, then scream, then have more fun, then act goofy. Woohoo party time..ohh and don’t put nothing that don’t come out of you body into the porta poties..oh and have fun!