The directions will be posted on this site soon, but while I have your attention, allow me get up on my soapbox again. The rainbow family, as most of you reading this know, is not an organization with members, but a very loose affiliation of individuals who choose to co-create a gathering. As such, we are obviously dependent on each other than we are in "Bablyon" as some choose to call it. We take it on faith that there is a good site chosen, that shitters will be dug, that relationships with locals will be congenial, that firewood will be cut, that water will be hauled, that green energy will be donated, that meals will get cooked and especially that children will get to eat their fill. We take it on faith that the beach will get cleaned up, that trash will get hauled out. We cannot possibly do everything ourselves. But we can at least plug in where we are inspired, and where we are able. If you have any kind of truck or vehicle you are willing to be enlisted for a trip or two to bring water in and trash out to the transfer station, please, we need you. If you have gas money for drivers willing to use their vehicles in service of the gathering, this is a great way to help. If you are young and full of energy, we need you to help set up and take down the infrastructure. No matter who you are, there is definitely some way to contribute. Even if you are a psychic vampire and you plan on being nothing but a bliss ninny-- well, at least admit this to yourself and come anyway. Rainbow gatherings have a way of inspiring even the most lazy, obstinate bliss ninnies to eventually become some of the biggest contributors, if not this gathering, at future ones.

Finally, let me say, keep A-camp far, far away. Please. If you want to drink that is your own business, but the core area of the gathering, main circle, kitchen circle, and kid village should be drunkenness free. I am really tired of cleaning up empties left carelessly around main circle, tired of throwing blankets over passed out drunks, tired of explaining to my young impressionable daughters what drunkenness is as they stumble on our blanket full of musical instruments, tired of hauling out cases and cases worth of empties. Sheesh. I drink alcohol in moderation myself, but not at a rainbow gathering. It's really about respect.

--metta