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Salton Sea was a strange and well preserved place
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Date: June 22nd, 2024 6:03 AM Author: quetzalcoatl's top guy Intense sulphur smell in the air No real life to speak of in the water; barely any in the surrounding area. Saw maybe two lizards and a small rodent (not a rat) of some sort More or less deserted (in a desert) Every building and rock has an odd salty crust of indeterminate makeup coating it (foul taste) Sparse at best wind and the sand in the recreational area is extremely hard so any writing made deep enough seems to last for a very long time. Saw many scribbles ranging from X + Y in hearts to swastikas and racial slurs to small bits of poetry here and there written in the stiff sand & on rocks & things Lots of random man-made detritus sitting around and in the water. Tons of tires especially, tire bridges leading to tire islands, tire forts perhaps made by pre-historic Cro-Magnon children, all in all some solid anthropological evidence that tire mining was a booming industry in the early days of Pangaea |
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Date: June 22nd, 2024 10:14 AM Author: quetzalcoatl's top guy Doctor Ray Peat plug 6/22/24 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5543880&forum_id=2#47768638) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2024 3:33 PM Author: quetzalcoatl's top guy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5543880&forum_id=2#47769496) |
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Date: June 25th, 2024 9:11 PM Author: quetzalcoatl's top guy Also it was well-preserved because of all the Salt. Salt on the Sea. Ha ha ha (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5543880&forum_id=2#47777822) |
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Date: June 27th, 2024 5:06 AM Author: quetzalcoatl's top guy Tough crowd (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5543880&forum_id=2#47781640) |
Date: June 22nd, 2024 6:18 AM Author: quetzalcoatl's top guy Excellent date milkshakes and also cheap knockoff Tom Ford colognes at a rest stop place called "Great Date Shakes" or something similar in Mecca, CA on the way there btw (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5543880&forum_id=2#47768324) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2024 6:39 AM Author: Tully?s Assume you hit up East Jesus (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5543880&forum_id=2#47768330) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2024 6:46 AM Author: quetzalcoatl's top guy The Slabs? Yes Salvation Mountain was the better see than East Jesus imo. EJ was reminiscent of the Tio's Tacos compound in Riverside; both very neat repositories of schizophrenic outsider art in the medium of Curb Junk. Talked to the groundskeeper at Salvation Mountain around dusk and he had some wild stories about drifters and IRL Mad Max road pirates in the area Afterwards I had some watery Fireball at an open mic night at a place called Headsman? Or Head Hunter? Or something similar. It was the only bar there afaik and extremely crusty but the people were friendly enough |
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Date: June 22nd, 2024 6:48 AM Author: Tully?s Yeah that’s what I meant. I went back in 2013 or so and my memory is a bit sketchy but the whole area was off putting and seemingly populated by hippies and other derelicts. What kind of stories did he have? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5543880&forum_id=2#47768333) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2024 7:05 AM Author: quetzalcoatl's top guy Extremely sketchy, at least after dark. With the sun up, it felt as sleepy and desolate as the rest of the Salton Sea area does. My foid travel companion didn't want to stay after dusk; said she felt chills as the sun was going down on Salvation Mountain. There was a relentlessly crusty eco-punk chain smoker on the road opposite of the psychedelic technicolor dream-clay monolith hawking various wares (absolutely crazy in that weather---not to mention there was pretty much nobody around. Only other obvious tourists were a gaggle of late 30s early 40s Asians in a minivan): skater shoe flat lace bracelets, reused material umbrellas (wanted ~40$ for these but there was no labeling so might have been a Cairo Tourist special price deal), some weed paraphernelia that looked like alibaba resale stuff, etc. She was very nice until we informed her we had no cash, then she got upset, then I offered her a stale cigarette for information and she became obsequious again Between this fine entrepreneur of unwanted and unusual goods and the world-weary groundskeeper with a red neck, I heard rustic countryside tales of Coachella tourists either getting lost or bourgeois-adventurous then being waylaid and assaulted (often at gun or machete-point), methed up ATV hooligans trashing peoples' camps, a live and impromptu pig sacrifice at the bar, and a general description of the settlement that made it sound like a circled wagon train surrounded by savage indians amongst other weird little things. I guess the further you get away from the more populated/longer settled core of Slab City the more dangerous it gets and the criminals are quick and very opportunistic; you can leave your vehicle out of your sight for an hour only to come back and find it on cinders with everything of value stripped out This said we were fine, there were some very sketchy/obviously upper'd up people but even the speedheads were friendly enough, and the main danger at that time was probably copping tetanus from some jagged aluminum sheeting in the parking lot or perhaps stepping in a particularly rancid puddle of piss somewhere. Might be worse in festival season, imagining Coachella-as-a-lifestyle tourists bumbling around there is pretty lol and probably a recipe for conflict with the locals |
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Date: June 22nd, 2024 7:20 AM Author: Tully?s TY - sounds truly awful and a bit scary, hard to believe these people live in our country. I just remember driving out there and having to stop to take a piss in the desert on the road and immediately getting harassed by a bunch of horse flies. Total inhospitable wasteland (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5543880&forum_id=2#47768346) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2024 7:28 AM Author: quetzalcoatl's top guy It's not great but honestly? If schizophrenics with strong criminal tendencies want to go build junk camps out in the desert, that's fine by me. Top tier outcome compared to squatting in SFHs or menacing the neighborhood in a sidewalk tent with the benefit of them being able to possibly create some neat culture or innovative waste removal/water collection/power generation systems (sounds ridiculous but one guy at the bar was actually extremely knowledgeable about rainwater collection and he built some sort of contraption to maximize it. Was too drunk to understand the Engineering but his knowledge of liquid containment sounded very solid) It was too far removed from any settled peoples' settlement to really be a threat and all the crust and general disorderliness was contained well within the sprawl of their collective wagon train camps. Probably no harm done to anyone so long as these Muscovite city folks stay away from their quaint yet v slovenly Zaporozhian cossack paradise |
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Date: June 22nd, 2024 7:14 AM Author: quetzalcoatl's top guy Lots of sun, lots of junk Very hot, great people |
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Date: June 22nd, 2024 3:42 PM Author: quetzalcoatl's top guy Oh I have some pictures from this prefectural tour. Let's see (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5543880&forum_id=2#47769522) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2024 3:50 PM Author: quetzalcoatl's top guy Nothing super interesting tbh. Main draw visually in that area is probably the starkness of the landscapes; "Mecca" is a great name, wry American humor, for the cluster of gas stations & convenience stores & sundry delights just outside of Palm Springs on the route to Salton City. Phone died when we got to technicolor clay vomitus mountain and cba to get the pics post-out of pocket from subordinate Deputy Inspector, Second Rank, Los Angeles division, yet but maybe eventually https://ibb.co/8DpSwqk |
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Date: June 22nd, 2024 3:55 PM Author: quetzalcoatl's top guy Bonus content: https://ibb.co/4F5MHyr (Womp Mart) https://ibb.co/sqps9rF These Plus Many Other Items reads like a thread title https://ibb.co/30rxf68 |
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Date: June 22nd, 2024 4:03 PM Author: Big Clique Energy Good Kontent, thank (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5543880&forum_id=2#47769567) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2024 4:13 PM Author: quetzalcoatl's top guy y/w ass problems tp. Hope those clear up for you fastly (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5543880&forum_id=2#47769598) |