RainyWoods
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WorldVision heads to the Sonoran Desert, California for our 108th contest. Welcome vagabonds to Slab City, a small town that's home to a colourful bunch of drifters and dreamers. The land used to house a U.S. Marine Corps installation but In 1961 the site was demolished, leaving behind only a bunch of slabs (hence Slab City). The Slabs is often referred to as the last free place in America. Although the land technically belongs to California State Teachers Retirement Association (nice of them to not care), people from all walks of life, some through choice and some not, have made the slabs their home. Rent free living might sound a tasty proposal to some but here there's no electricity, no sewage system and water is scarce. Also, no law around these parts so if anyone wants to steal some of my special moonshine, I'll bury you 6 feet under the sand and likely get away with it.
Despite the harshness of the environment, there's a strange beauty to what I've seen of Slab City. The place has been home over the years to many artists. A man called Leonard Knight moved to the slabs and in 1984 started work on his masterpiece, Salvation Mountain, a humongous man made hill of adobe and straw, painted in the most bright and huesome colours. It's one heck of a trip to look at and was pretty much my inspiration for bringing the contest here, as I'm so fascinated by this piece of art that this one man devoted his entire life to as a sign of love for his god. Leonard passed away in 2014 but the mountain is still maintained today.
That's enough of my claptrap for now (cause there will be more of course later), but I hope you enjoy camping out under the hot scorching sun of the Slabs this edition. Have a groovy time.
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Where else is there?
So glad you're hosting. 
"I'm sitting here with a lot of paint and a lot of adobe, and a lot of happiness, and a lot of love." That's the way to live life. I hope I can see this place one day.
