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Kristin: There's a dog barking.
So I have arrived in a very interesting place, this is called Slab City.
Slab City is a place in the very southeast of California where you can live for free.
It's basically a big squatter community.
So when I was looking up free campsites, I found this.
I'm not sure I'm 100% comfortable, but I think it's a cool experience.
Tomorrow I wanna show you two really cool things out here, the reason why I ended up
out here.
Okay, so, this is Salvation Mountain, it's made out of clay, it's an art installation/act
of devotion/little holy area made by...what is his name?
Let me get back to you.
This is Leonard Knight, the creator of Salvation Mountain.
This is so cool, it reminds me so much of something you'd see at Burning Man, minus
the religious aspect of it, just the design, and every little detail has been thought of.
What an amazing, interesting, intriguing...is there another word that sounds kinda like
those to describe this place because it really is just as interesting as I imagined it would
be.
This is really, really neat.
Hi, do you mind?
Karibe: Hold on, let me put my...
Hello, what do you wanna see?
You wanna see the front, or you wanna see the camp, or?
Kristin: Yeah, I would love to.
Karibe: Well, what you wanna see first?
Kristin: Let's see the camp.
Karibe: The camp, [inaudible 00:02:28], I am Karibe.
Kristin: And I'm Kristin.
Karibe: Kristin?
Kristin: Yes.
Who's this guy?
Karibe: It's [inaudible 00:02:35].
Kristin: Hi, guys.
Karibe: My companions.
Kristin: Yeah.
Is that home sweet home?
Karibe: Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, that's for people that say, "Hey, I wanna stay a
couple of days, you have somewhere I can stay?"
"Sure, there's a little tent there," or, you know, "There's a new tower over there."
Kristin: You've got a nice view there.
Karibe: Oh, I'll show you.
Oh not from there, I'll show you from this one.
Kristin: Oh, you're all solar?
Karibe: Yes, this is solar, our water and gas are delivered.
Kristin: Nice.
Karibe: Oh yes.
Kristin: Are you from Mexico?
Karibe: No, I'm not from Mexico.
Because I have the Mexican flag?
No because that's a Portugal flag.
Kristin: Oh, you got a...oh, you're Portuguese?
Karibe: No, from where [inaudible 00:03:15].
Kristin: Shall I keep guessing?
Keep guessing.
Okay.
Karibe: Let me show you.
No, this...like I said, these are things that are found, so.
Kristin: Okay.
Well you found a lotta things.
Karibe: And then this is home.
Kristin: Oh, super cool.
Well thanks for letting me film this.
Karibe: Oh, no problem.
Kristin: This is quite something.
Karibe: And then, this is the latest we created, me and my neighbors, they start pulling things.
I have those here that are found [inaudible 00:03:39], "Hey, I got some toys for you,"
you know, because that's the misfit toys, this is the section.
They are abominations of creations that I'm creating now.
I don't know, you know, just...
Kristin: Did you make this hat?
Karibe: No, they had...I bought the hat.
Kristin: You bought the hat.
Karibe: Yeah, I bought the hat.
Had [SP].
But all these things have been given.
Kristin: Oh, gifts that you've been given.
Karibe: Things that people have given me, things that I have found, things that, I don't
know, they just seem like they go there, I have lots of some of them.
Let me show you up here.
There's a shower there.
Kristin: Oh, nice.
Solar shower?
Karibe: Yes, but it's got a pump.
It's got a pump for, you know, of course to pump the water, so it's not the gravity.
Kristin: I'm, like, asking, I don't know how these things work.
Karibe: And then water through a radiator, and then a fan blowing air through the radiator
to cool the air.
I've seen...
Kristin: This is genius.
Karibe: No, it's not genius, I've seen it work, that's where I got the idea.
This direction [SP] [inaudible 00:04:43].
These are my friends.
Kristin: Oh, I love that.
I like [inaudible 00:04:46] the best.
Karibe: Yeah, and there's miscellaneous things that, you know, so [inaudible 00:04:51] because
this is where I sleep in the summertime.
Kristin: Oh, it looks pretty cool.
Looks nice.
Karibe: Got a refrigerator with a little freezer, so got cold water.
Kristin: And that's running on solar power as well?
Karibe: Yes, everything's running solar.
Batteries back there, propane for cooking.
Come on in.
Kristin: Are a lot of people who live here veterans?
Karibe: Well there's around 100 camps year round from March...I mean from October to
March.
Then there's a season that's more people come, rainbow family, a lot of travelers and people
that have been coming here for 20, 25 years...
Kristin: Okay, that's me because I spent the night here last night.
Karibe: Oh, perfect, where did you spend the night?
Kristin: Over at the campground.
Well, I know.
Karibe: The campground, okay.
Yeah, a lotta people stay there, but...
Kristin: It's geotagged as a campground, but then I arrived and I was like, "Oh, it's all
a camp!"
Can you show me the front?
Karibe: People have been living here for 25, 30 years.
Kristin: Wow.
Karibe: Here, you know, people are on social security, you know, there's very old people
here, like in the 90s.
Kristin: Oh, wow!
Karibe: Woman, 90 years old living by herself.
There's a variety of people here with lot of different knowledge.
People here are retired electricians, they were builders, or ex-military, or they were
contractors, or whatever, you know?
Kristin: It's pretty amazing.
Karibe: It's a community.
There's a lot of things to see here, did you go to the hot springs?
Kristin: No.
Karibe: Did you go to the showers?
Kristin: No.
Karibe: Okay, id you go to West Satan?
Kristin: No.
Karibe: No?
You wish...it's next to Jesus.
Kristin: Okay.
Karibe: Did you go to the skate park?
Kristin: No.
Karibe: Did you go to the two pet cemeteries?
Library?
Kristin: No, I need to go.
Karibe: Then experience the rest.
Kristin: You're right.
Karibe: There's a lot of [inaudible 00:06:38].
You send people, bring people.
Kristin: All right, well, say goodbye then.
Thank you so much for showing me around.
Karibe: No problem, my pleasure.
Kristin: I really dig what you've got going on here.
See you again.
Karibe: All right, it's been a pleasure.
Kristin: Likewise, bye!
Okay, now I'm at a spot called East Jesus, i's a collection of all kinds of interesting
art, so let's take a little look-see.
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Wow, this place is a statement...actually it's a lotta statements at once.
It's all just kind of been discarded or collected or put together to be this amazing stuff.
It's basically all upcycled.
Well, now having seen East Jesus and Salvation Mountain, it's hard for me to say which one
I think is cooler because this one has so much to look at.
I think my favorite though is all these old TV sets painted with, I don't know, words.
This is quite a place.
Well, guys, this is East Jesus in Slab City.
I'm Kristin, and I would love for you to subscribe so that you can see new videos like this every
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See you, guys.
Karibe: By the way, you know what Jesus means?
Watch the movie "Lion King."
Okay, when papa king's telling kid, "Son, you see that side over there?
That is Jesus," and he tells him, "You never go there."
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