In our last post, we found some strange metal skeletons, and visited our most favourite oasis. Today, we follow our adventurers as they continue their journey back from beyond the edge of the world, relaxed and refreshed.

Bicycling along, our adventures came across a curious installation, like part of a room had been transplanted onto playa. S stops to take a look:

It seemed to be suggesting they take a time out…:

…but as they had just come from a nap and ponder at their favourite oasis, they decided to take a more active look:

Our heroes had found a book! A ‘Colouring Book of Unfortunate Situations’!:

What was inside?:

S pondered the pictures with the utmost of seriousness:

Stegosaurs? They don’t seem unfortunate! They’re my favourite dinosaur! (Possibly my favourite animal.) But the destruction in the background perhaps explains what the authors are attempting to convey:

Finishing their perusal of the book (and eschewing the use of the hourglass), they decided to peruse some of the comments left by other visitors:

(I had meant to translate the Chinese characters there. I recognize ‘Tien’ (and I think ‘food’), but I’m unable to read the rest of it, although I did find what looks like a cool on-line dictionary.)

Moving on, our adventurers came upon this…object… Having no idea what it was, they used it for its sundial properties, figured out that it was time to drink some water[1], and moved on:

And then this happened. As the sun was baking, our adventurers did not visit this installation more closely. Perhaps there were more surprises within. But there was no soup for them.

Stay tuned! In our next episode, our plucky adventurers make their inner 8-year-olds the happiest people ever!

[1]”If you’re cranky, drink some water. If you’re thirsty, drink some water. If you think about water, drink some water. If you think about anything, drink some water. Drink some water. Drink some water.” -Paraphrase of Burning Man mantra