Salvation Mountain

Just got back from a trip out to the Twentynine Palms area, and took a side trip down along the Salton Sea, out past the town of Niland, to Leonard’s, and was fortunate to be in the company of an art professor, who assisted me in understanding some of what we encountered there.

The place is stupefying.

Pictures do not do it justice. Not at all.

Fantastic primitive art.

Leonard is happy to talk with all comers.

How this old man keeps at it, out in the blistering desert is beyond my puny abilities to understand.

If you ever find yourself within five hundred miles of this place, stop, rearrange your schedule, and by all means go. Go and see this thing!

I’m so going there. I wonder if Leonard would let me arrive by parachute.

I worked out in the desert about 2 miles from this place.

I always thought it was little more than a trash heap when the shanty village of “slab city” (not too far away from here) is added to the picture.

I think Google Earth has a lot more pics.

Whatever keeps him occupied. It’s better than knocking on doors and handing out bibles, I guess.

The builder was on KCPT’s own “Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations” Great show for all you guys who have never seen it.

A friend and I recently visited Salvation Mountain and we had the opportunity to meet and visit with Leonard. He is truly an amazing and inspiring human being. Thank you, Leonard, for your dedication and your life’s work. As you requested, I am “spreading the Word.”