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Salvation Mountain & Slab City

Yesterday we ventured out to find “Salvation Mountain” on the southern end of the Salton Sea.  We drove about an hour and a half to the wrong location, Bombay Beach because the GPS was wrong!  Now you are most likely thinking, Bombay Beach sounds nice, fun....nope; it was dismal, extremely depressed with spray painted abandoned RVs and mobile homes!  We googled again and we were about 18 miles from Salvation Mountain!   Salvation Mountain was created by Leonard Knight (1931-2014) in the California Desert near Slab City a Squatter/Art Community.   The “mountain” is made of Adobe bricks, discarded tires,…

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Read more about the article Arroyo Tapiado Mud Caves

Arroyo Tapiado Mud Caves

Milestone: 5 months on the road as of yesterday! We have been to the “Mud Caves” twice so far!  From the main road there is an 8 mile round trip dirt/sand road that requires 4WD.  We had over an hour of video and hundreds of pictures.  We have made a 5:33 minute video....In one of the “cave” sections of the video you may see something run by on the bottom right....we did not notice this until we were going through the videos!  WTH! **Make sure the video is on HD! One of the most fascinating points of interest in the…

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Read more about the article The Slot, Borrego Springs

The Slot, Borrego Springs

The Slot is a narrow siltstone slot canyon near Borrego Springs, CA in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.  We went to do this hike on New Years Day but the crowds were unmanageable.  We returned early one morning and we were the 2nd car in the lot!  There is a 3 mile dirt access road to get the The Slot.   We hiked counter clockwise that forced us up a deep sand road...it was daunting from the bottom looking up, but once we got to the top, it didn’t seem that bad....   The actual slot canyon is about a…

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Metal Sculptures of Borrego Springs

Soon after we arrived in Borrego Springs we heard about the “sculptures”.  There are well over 100 life size or larger metal sculptures throughout the desert surrounding the town. We felt like we were on safari, hunting every one of them!  We spent 2 days, 3-4 hours each day and we went to every single one!The collection includes camels, sloths, llamas, wild horses, sabre  tooth tigers, mammoths, giant birds, wild pigs, sheep, tortoises and the famous dragon as well as many more!This all began in 2006 when the owner of the Galleta Meadows Estate, Dennis Avery, decided he really wanted…

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