Inside Slab City, The Lawless city in the Desert | Last Free Place In America

i appreciate how respectful you are with everyone. Very well raised

I remember the man that built that mountain. He would give people tours and they would donate so he could keep it up. I was sad when he said he was sick and when he passed away. There use to be YouTube video’s with him showing his mountain /his art 🖼️ He was definitely happy!! ❤

The woman with the taxidermy dinner party immersive art experience and the extensive artsy junkyard is definitely living her best life.

The man that fixes bikes says he's on meth and most there are on some drug. Respect for telling the truth. And he has a valuable skill fixing bikes and takes his job seriously. Very likable man.

Definitely Mad Max feel to it.

I love how Rockstar included Slab City in GTA V.

Thank you for having fed the homeless people. Every time you turn around you're going to be blessed.

Mad max feel for sure..... Exactly what things will come too.... People just want to be free live and be happy to be....left alone !

OMG, a lot of those clothes in Dotties bus were donated by people in Northern California, and I drove it all down to the slabs about three years ago. I can’t do it like that anymore, because I no longer have a cargo van, lol. But I had my cargo van loaded up with tons and tons of clothing and 700 pounds of dog food and cat food. All donated. The outside world is very kind to the residents of Slab City. I myself love the place. I have been going every year except Covid years, for about 11 or 12 years now. I stay as long as I can, helping, Andra Slaburbia with the dogs and cats. And when I leave, I take as many as I can/whatever Animals that can be adapted back up to Northern California. Thanks to Andra, I think we have gotten somewhere between 60 and 100 dogs/puppies/kittens out of Slab City before the intense, insane desert heat, and up to Northern California to get adopted. Every last one of them has gotten adopted. I will be heading there again soon. I really love the people and respect their reasoning for wanting to live in the Slabs. And I also respect the folks who want to live and lead a more private life there. I would stay there permanently, all year round if I didn’t love to travel so much. I can definitely stay in one place in my RV for a few days or even a week or so, but then I really want to scratch my itchy feet and get back on the road and find a new awesome place to go. For anyone who doesn’t know, Slab City has a pretty decent Facebook Page. You should join the group if you’re curious or interested in Slab City life.

These people are like the fun characters who give you side quests on your journey in a video game

When I was in the Marines we'd train right next to them. They'd dig through our trash at night and we were told to let them be as long as they didn't get too close to anything important. I grew up in Alabama so it was a wild experience. I'd never seen anything like it.

Thanks for taking me on this tour ~ I think that Slab City is great for the right kind of person. I enjoyed meeting the folks you met in your video👍🏻💥‼️🇺🇸🙏🏻😎☮️

Gotta give to them for living how they want, I think it’s actually brave and courageous to leave all of the amenities of living in society, we take so many things for granted.

Never heard of this corner of earth. It is fascinating to see people create their own world. This is not for everyone, but for anyone. Thanks for sharing, watched the entire video.

From South Carolina. Went to San Diego to see my son (Marine) a few years ago. Stayed here for a couple of nights. Amazing 🙂

I've lived here in the desert right down the road.Really like an hour away from slab City, and I've never been there.Your documentary was amazing.I loved it.Thank you so much

It's awesome that Slab City is still going strong, I remember back when Leonard was still there (the man who built Salvation Mountain), back around 2008 me and a close friend watched Into The Wild, were deeply moved by it, and my friend took a roadtrip to follow a lot of McCandless' stops and Slab City was one of the places she went. She brought me back a DVD that Leonard was selling that told the story of Salvation Mountain, I still have it. I didn't know Leonard has passed but I also didn't realize how much time had gone by until now, lol. Great video, took me back to the 00s!

This is my first video of yours Ryan. The interactions you have with people is amazing to watch! Towards the end when you were having the taco bowl, you were speaking about you past travel's and something about how meeting just random people is so important to you. I always talk to random people and I mean always. Stores, gas station, drive-inn movie and so on. I am happy to see someone else believes this as well. Gotta tell ya, the way you video and talk to people AND make tacos on a video; it made me feel I was there! What a great feeling. Thank you Ryan, Bill

Believe me, you don't want to be there. It's not because of the poverty, it's because of the people. Superficially nice people can't hide the huge problems they create for others with the chosen behaviors, and the exceptions are not the rule.

Everyone in slab city gives off the vibe that they have a side quest to offer in a post apocalyptic video game I love it