Freshman Swarm

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.

Hunter Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971)

Last year I booked NASCAR and Burning Man, mostly to write about. Unpredictability is the best thing about the road, and for the Gonzo journalism, minus the ether and LSD, both were great, however, I feel no…