Salvation Mtn & Revisiting places for a second look

2/26/10 Friday


We headed out by our selves this morning. I wanted to spend more time just looking around. The trip included another trip to the library, Salvation Mtn and the Mud Pots.

Salvation Mountain has part of it washed away during the big rains here a couple of weeks ago. The mountain is topped with what looks like hay/straw bales and adobe then painted. The man that was inspired to create Salvation Mtn was there and took us on a tour.

Inside there were trees that he built out of tires and hay bales then the adobe. These are so strong that in a couple of places he has telephone poles as the main inner structure of the limbs. He used come-alongs to place many of the “branches” in place. He collected old car windows to be used as windows. When someone comes and brags on his work, he is inspired to do more. Salvation Mtn has been added on Google Maps recently. He said that when that happened, his Mtn went international and he has seen an increase in interest. This site was also featured in a movie recently.

I was really surprised when we went to the Mud Pots again. A lot of the water had evaporated and the pools were smaller. You could still hear what sounded like water gurgling in hollow pipes and there was still gas escaping from holes. Some of the holes were still covered with water and made bubbles, others just whistled.

We stopped at Bobby D’s which is a restaurant in Niland. On the wall were photos from when the Salton Sea first came to be and some of the events that took place there like speed boat races. There were also photos of Salvation Mtn in it’s early days.

On the way back “home” we stopped and took some photos at the Cactus Lady’s place. She pots and sells cactus. Her place is on the way in in Poverty Flats. She didn’t seem to be around. Sorry Christine.

We also saw another Streamline Trailer. It was larger than ours and not in as good a condition. We chatted with the owner for a while and he showed us a brochure he had from 1974.

Back at home, it was time for lunch and me to update here. Tonight will be another fire and we will see if the rain comes tomorrow.

Off and on today the bombs have been going off. Seems strange to get used to that kind of thing.

Talked to Samantha today. She is almost 6 months along now and doing good. We are hoping that she is able to carry the baby the whole time. Her next dr visit is next Tuesday so we should have an update then.
Until tomorrow………..