Arriving in the middle of a desert town and seeing this was a very surreal moment. I've always seen pictures but it was much more impressive in person. Finding out some history about this mountain made me appreciate it so much more.
Leonard Knight created Salvation Mountain in 1984 when his handmade air balloon crash and failed. His message on the balloon was "God is Love". Ending up in Niland, California for work, Leonard decided to make a small monument out of cement to get his message across. He eventually stayed in Niland to make this monument bigger and bigger. The mountain we see today was the second mountain, the first one fell apart due to weak materials used.
It was cool to find out that there were all kinds of passageways on the west side of the mountain.
When we first got there, we saw hundreds and hundreds of paint buckets. We came to find out that all of the paint that is used for the mountain is donated from all kinds of people
We saved the actual main mountain for last after exploring the other side of the mountain. Being there made me feel like I was on some kind of weird movie set from the 60's.
It was really windy the whole time we were there, other than sand blowing into our eyes, it was actually really nice.
Found this postcard right before we left.
We were only a few miles away from the Salton Sea and it was on the way back so we thought we would check it out. It wasn't what we expected it all. We ending up having dinner by the train tracks and made our way back home as the sun was setting.
It was cool to experience Salvation Mountain with Lily and Xavier, I think it's an amazing thing that someone's beliefs can help them or motivate them to make something so monumental. Thanks Leonard Knight for making something so cool and sharing with so many people.
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