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[https://beyondthebucketlist.co/slab-city-last-free-place/ by BEYOND THE BUCKETLIST 30/10/18] | [https://beyondthebucketlist.co/slab-city-last-free-place/ by BEYOND THE BUCKETLIST 30/10/18] | ||
Slab City, California. Hidden in the California badlands right smack in the middle of the Sonoran Desert is a little community of….well, squatters technically. Sitting just 50 miles from the border of Mexico is a community of desert dwellers. They have taken over the land previously used to house a military base in the 1940s. Here they live tax-free, completely off the grid with no power, water, or trash collection, and officially they don’t exist. | Slab City, California. Hidden in the California badlands right smack in the middle of the Sonoran Desert is a little community of….well, squatters technically. Sitting just 50 miles from the border of Mexico is a community of desert dwellers. They have taken over the land previously used to house a military base in the 1940s. Here they live tax-free, completely off the grid with no power, water, or trash collection, and officially they don’t exist. | ||
=====Slab City, California :: The Last Free Place in America | Bombay Beach + Salton Sea===== | |||
[https://laynefable.com/2023/06/21/slab-city-california-the-last-free-place-in-america-bombay-beach-salton-sea/ by LAYNE FABLE] | |||
Its name comes from the concrete slabs that this squatter city was built upon that were left behind by Marine Corps barracks of Camp Dunlap during World War II. The history runs deep. So much deeper than I had originally thought when my friend, Vero ((Golden West Club)) brought up going on a day trip from San Diego to Slab City. The more famous, Salvation Mountain, has popped up on Instagram for me once or twice so I knew a little about it, but that is perhaps the most mundane part of Slab City.. | |||
