Saturday, December 28, 2013

MAGIC MOUTAIN AND TRAILER PARK ART


The last day of Nicoles visit and it was time for Slab City. Cuda bailed on this outing opting for the safety of Shadow Hills RV Park and a clean bathroom. Stay at home and play with your cat little girl me and Nicole will take on this one. Our route to the infamous lair of trailer park critters  took us south along the Salton Sea scenic drive a great road to put the petal to the metal. I floored it and watched the speedometer on my f-350 quickly jump to 160km before easing off I'am sure this puppy would have done 200. We had decided to explore any places of interest on our way down and our first stop was a lovely little  community called Bombay Beach a little waterfront community of shacks and scary trailers. Where were all the people?  Not sunbathing on the Salton Sea shore ( Bad  smelly beach lots of dead tilapia fish ) We felt like we were in a ghost town  .We started to drive up and down the empty streets  WTF IS EVERYBODY?

It quickly became evident that that Bombay Beach had seen better days and that much badness had happened here.We continued our tour looking for signs of life. There were vehicles parked at different spots but no inhabitants.
Maybe  everyone was working a shift at the community meth lab.

Nicole refused to get out of the truck

                                                  No golden Arches

SATAN LIVES HERE

  It was time  to go


After going through a trashy little town of old buildings and yes
more trailers we started our final approach to to Salvation Moutain
and Slab city.......Up ahead .....there it was Hallelujah!




A painted mountain of madness greeted us as we lept out of  the truck to experience this landmark
of American folk art . It was time to cleanse our souls from the decadent life we had been pursuing in the evil valley of the Desert Cities.


 TOO MUCH HAS GONE ON

FOR TOO LONG


Some deranged denizen from slab city labored 28 years to put this 
circus together

We heard he's in a nursing home now

HOW ABOUT A NIGHT IN THE SHRINE











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