After talking about going to Salvation Mountain since the end of 2013 I finally made it there with Rick and Laura. Rick plotted a route that was 399 miles (one way) so needless to say there was not going to be any freeway riding. But clearly that was not going to be possible we would have had to leave at 5am. So instead we took the most expedient 100+ miles which was all very long and boring freeway miles. The hope was we could drop through Joshua Tree on the way back but that never happened either. This getting dark early stuff has got to stop!
The ride was windy (of course) with a couple of car drivers drifting in our lanes and getting too close for comfort but that is to be expected so overall the ride was benign.
Now Salvation Mountain was anything but. You can see it way off of the 111 and campers have set up all around the thing. It has winding walkways with bales of hay forming the roof covered in Adobe mud and painted. It truly is spectacular. In and out of cubby holes and rooms you meander with colors and art swirling everywhere-overhead and underfoot.
Little known fact in 2001 it was made a National Folk Art Site and that distinction is well deserved.
The pictures don’t do it justice but here they are anyway
On the way out this is all there was…trains and the Salton Sea
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