1/30/10: Slab City - Leonard Knight and Salvation Mountain

Salvation Mountain

One of the first things to learn about "The Slabs" is its primitive clock. With no electricity beyond an occasional car-battery contraption or gas generator, there's little to do past sunset other than sit around a fire drinking beer. While I personally approve of such enriching activities, beer costs money- meaning people are usually in bed EARLY. In fact, Kevin claimed to be in bed often as early as 6 or 7, and up with the sun.

1/29/10: Slab City, CA

Somehow, the Slab City trip was 10-years ago this week. How a decade has passed is beyond me, but Kevin Eubank and Leonard Knight have as well. Time marches on. This was truly a remarkable time. I've decided to migrate these over here from my old blog to mark the time and will leave them posted in 2020 for a bit before re-dating the week back to 2010. I suspect I'll be doing more of this.  

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El Jefe and I finally hit the road for California's Imperial Valley in the early afternoon. Five-hours later, after leaving Quartzsite, the Colorado River, Blythe, and 20-foot cacti behind, we were treated to a stunning I-10 descent into the Imperial Valley and Indio/ Coachella, before hugging the eastern shore of the Salton Sea to the scuttled settlement of Niland... home to Slab City.

The Imperial Valley from Above

The Salton Sea