Everyone from employees to other residents here are friendly and everything  is clean and works. Last night we tried the spa and today we explored the area. There were only two things to see as far as we could tell. One was Slab City and the other was some sort of mud formations called “mud pots” that are supposed to be interesting but we couldn’t find them. We were probably 100 yards from them but with no signs  and lots of mud we couldn’t find them. We did happen upon the Sonny Bono Wildlife area though, it was very pretty.

Slab City is another story. The main attraction of the place is “Salvation Mountain” which is a real piece of folk art that is rapidly disintegrating without the care of its creator, Leonard Knight, who we think is in a nursing home. As you can see from the photos, there are lots of nooks and crannies in the structure with lots of work on each one.

For some reason the Border Patrol is really busy around here. There is a checkpoint on US-111 right near this place and both yesterday and today we saw Border Patrol cars with lights flashing right here at the resort. Today they stopped a young guy in a white minivan who pretty surly works here based on how he was dressed. The Border Patrol guys detained him for about 15 minutes and looked inside his car. After apparently checking him out as OK, they seemed to bump fists as the young guy ran back to his van and got going. I wonder what it would be like to look like a Mexican and drive around here.

We are looking forward to getting back into the spa tonight. When it is cool out that 104 doesn’t seem so hot.