Las Vegas Sun journalists Tiffany Brown, J. Patrick Coolican, Kristen Peterson and Zach Wise report from the 22nd annual festival. Burning Man has grown from a small event on a San Francisco beach into an eight-day celebration of life on The Playa, an ancient dry lake bed in northern Nevada. About 40,000 people are take the nomadic journey to the site in the Black Rock Desert, including some 50 to 250 "burners" from Las Vegas.