Tuesday, October 20, 2026

The end of the line: Slab City, USA

What the view from above? This US military plane races over the Mojave Desert (STS-126).
Death Valley's Mesquite Flat Dunes, far from Sahara, stoss, brink, and slip surfaces, Mojave
Unique art and anarchy in a California desert land for weirdoes called Slab City (wiki)
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Will Slabsters accept my temporary body art?
(Inspire Hub) Inside Slab City, California: meeting the people who call the last FREE place

SLAB CITY, also called "The Slabs," is an unincorporated, off-the-grid alternative lifestyle community [1] consisting largely of "snowbirds" [2] in the hot Salton Trough region of the Mojave Desert in Imperial County, California.

Let's not argue. Let's live in peace.
It took its name from concrete slabs that remained after the World War II U.S. Marine Corps Camp Dunlap war training facility was torn down [3].

Slab City is perhaps best known for attracting oddly colorful and wonderful people who want to live beyond mainstream society [4]. More

Remember, not all who wander are lost. Some are just out of money or sick of wasting it by handing it over to The Man for permission to simply exist on earth in peace, human dignity, and freedom.
- Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal

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