Imperial Dunes and Dystopian California: Slab City and the Salton Sea

[@burkedm175]

You tell a good story in your videos. I enjoy the use of voice over narration.

[@gi169]

Before I was a commenter. Love ya Mr. Robert. 👍👍👍

[@michelemcdanieltravels]

I love.. Old Kia. Such a unique out of the way place, thank you for traveling there. I hope to see those amazing desert sunsets and sunrises in person some day.🤍

[@sgit1]

I've gotten to this video following your adventures in order. This was the most interesting - I've enjoyed all of them.

[@YoungViz]

37:23 YEAAA 2pac...you're the man, this made me smile and makes me enjoy ur videos even more now lmao. Best music to ride/travel through the west is blasting some G Funk, Funk, classic rock...

[@bobcooper6475]

im a little behind in yur videos robert but i love them all robert thanks cooper from california next to hearst castle

[@captfishsticks]

Thank you Robert. Blessings to you and yours. Love your music, I listen to it all the time. Shalom...brian

[@TravelingRobert]

Thank you!

[@petraolsen2397]

Another great video Robert. Those were magnificent sunsets and sunrises. I enjoyed my “Sunday morning trip”. Thank you 😊

[@almamorales4158]

A very interesting places. The beautiful of Imperial Dunes is amazing. Slap City in a surreal place, Thanks for the video.

[@MEugeneDavis]

I have been to Slab City twice. It seems friendly for the most part, but the have their crazies. One burned down an RV with someone sleeping in it. There is crime, cops do not patrol. I would feel unsafe living there.

[@mollyhershey]

@@MEugeneDavis you're right slab city is friendly for the most part and yes, there are some crazies. yea there's crime in the slabs, just like every other town. and just a heads up, don't be fooled by the rumors...the law does patrol. before moving to there full time I traveled solo to Slab City more times than I can count and did not once feel unsafe. same holds true for when I lived there. maybe you'll give the place another chance

[@AskRemy]

Robert is awesome! Love these videos. Never gets old.

[@capitaobravo805]

This is one of your best video Robert. It is good to know unknown places in California.

[@capitaobravo805]

Blue Diamond i never heard about this place..so for me this is an intetesting video. More than the typical places Always shown on videos about California. I am not from the US , so I am surprised seeing this place.

[@capitaobravo805]

I know California has counter culture places and I found this a very exotic. Certainly few tourists would agree to go there to take pictures and put them on the instagram. Robert was amazing going there and showing the place to his channel subscribers on KZbin.

[@capitaobravo805]

Blue Diamond thank you for your explanations. Even so, for people outside the US, this place has its share of fascinating yet dangerous in the opinion of the nearby population.

[@TravelingRobert]

Yes, this one is definitely off the radar. California is not all palm tress, hilltop mansions and pretty beaches.

[@graciemaemarie11jones16]

any place is better than ugly, dirty, frigid, brown, windy, butt-ugly new york state....today...april 15 (spring...lol lol lol) will be 31....freezing rain....high winds.....new york state is a penal purgatory colony....ugly, cold, windy, dead lookin' with maybe a few weeks of warm weather with blue skies....remember, in new york desolation, in 'summer, umm, lol lol.... on any given 'summer', yeah right.... day...any given day.....bring a umbrella...sunblock....a raincoat....shorts....a hoodie....new york is deeply dark, dank, gray, frigid, windy, smelly, ugly BEYOND words...like an poem by edger allen poe.....of a place so deeply depressing....new york state, a place so DANK....UGLY....sorry for the descriptive despription of this hideous place of purgatory...new york state....a place with no hope...no future...no beauty...FRIGID BRUTAL HIDEOUS HORRID NIGHTMARISH weather...and rude drivers....

[@marks6072]

I did a 6 day road trip to AZ and I couldn't get that "Riding in my RV" tune out of my head for the entire trip... sang it for 6 days (each way) and drove my wife freakin insane!!!

[@TravelingRobert]

:-D

[@williamgaze866]

Haha. I do the same!

[@remylove9292]

Another Awesome video Robert.Great view of Slab City!

[@kingfreedom1863]

I love the videos man and thank you . You gave me places to escape.verry calming

[@VenerableYorge]

Hey Robert, you made my day with this amazing trip. Many thanks for share!!! Greetings from Mexico!!!

[@jimc.6127]

Spent the better half of Sat. watching your Florida to Quarztsite videos. Time well spent for a future full timer. Thanks Robert, your one of the best! J.C.

[@EuroVrod]

Hello from Quartzsite, laying in my trailer on BLM land, enjoying your videos. Great work!! Thanks for the hard work!

[@derrickhart1976]

So great, this video you made Robert

[@marliesrasche4640]

I love your Videos, i visiting many places.

[@TravelingRobert]

Thanks!

[@tutttutt9558]

I actually love the salton sea. It’s got an amazing energy to it.

[@91156]

Once again, you put together a superior video. Thanks, and safe travels!

[@TravelingRobert]

Thank you!

[@brendas8503]

We look forward to your videos! We are considering a travel trailer to take our 3 little boys camping! 🏕️ Safe travels!

[@rickskelton2880]

I love traveling along with your videos..!! Bravo..!! Love the drone shots..!!

[@TravelingRobert]

Thank you!

[@CaptainGnarkill]

Great edit, I love Slab City.

[@TravelingRobert]

Thanks!

[@SalvadorEFlores-t6t]

❤ This is a five star presentation.

[@HL09128]

Really Great drone work!

[@TheSuburbanExperimentalist]

Can't wait for the next part! Thanks for showing us those parts of California!

[@jacquelinejackson4067]

Great! the aerial view is fantastic. Thank you Robert. Great job

[@richardcrouse2243]

Wow! I didn't know such places existed. We were spellbound watching! You've taken us places we may never have seen. Great job, excellent presentation.

[@TravelingRobert]

Thank you. It is full of peculiar places out there

[@debbiewerner7124]

So sad to see all that. Never knew that existed. Very interesting art ❤

[@moondancer5115]

I just finished your Quartzite video...nice timing with the next episode 😊 as always, great production Robert

[@MarkTheLostTraveler]

Fun video ill have to check those places out in a few months when im out that way.

[@TravelingRobert]

Cool, thanks. Enjoy!

[@vasonar]

Wow, the good bad and the very ugly. Thanks for saving us the trip, Robert. I'm a Northern Californian and you're taking me to areas that I've never seen. Thank you.

[@davidmonge783]

Hi robert your segment on slab city is near my home i live in el centro california !!

[@j79meyerify]

Love your videos Robert! Always excited for a new one another great job as always looking forward to the next one safe travels

[@TravelingRobert]

Thanks!

[@davidmonge783]

Hope u are having a nice week !!

[@Spyro333777]

I was there on Thanksgiving Day, 2018. I was going to the PALM SPRINGS AERIAL TRAM, but the park was close due to a fire caused by a homeless person the night before. 30deg(F) at night. So i headed to ALL these places like on this video. SLAB CITY is OFF GRID. NO WATER, NO ELECTRICITY. Looks like anyone is free to live there. You create your own property line using rocks, bottles, or tires, mostly. Lots of families lives at the place, grand kids to grandmas. Robert is right. PEOPLE THERE ARE NICE. Very poor leaving.

[@mariomegee6105]

Very good voice for storytelling.

[@thekellycorner]

Great video! It's great you are able to visit places on the other side of the country from where you live.

[@TravelingRobert]

Thank you

[@classiclife7204]

Salvation Mountain seems hardly worth the trouble. Robert was there the same year that I was last time I visited, 2018. I don't know if the mountain is still in such a fragile state as it was that year, but seriously there were, without exaggeration, about 45 "Danger" and "Please stay on yellow road" and "Keep OFF!" and "No climbing!" signs. It seemed like it was about to collapse at any moment, and the old guy working the place, briefly seen here, I think, was spending a lot of time barking at people the day I was there. The artwork has an aura of total stress, LOL

[@mollyhershey]

the mountains fragile state is due to the fact that it sits on a fault line and is subject to massive water damage from flooding. maintaining the mountain takes an incredible amount of year-round work, even over the summer when temperatures linger at over 100 degrees daily for months on end. many visitors are respectful of Leonard's work but unfortunately there are those who are not, thus the "old man" barking. love is universal and very much worth the trouble.

[@donjones1124]

Wow I was hoping you would come here and you did! Awesome!

[@brickster9066]

Great video Robert , drone footage was great, depressing area though. Looking forward to your next video. Safe travels

[@TravelingRobert]

Thanks, not what what you imagine when you think California

[@Fjordarshwedagon]

Jeez..like the intro song..it is funny and it's good.I think you have a good voice for singing. Sometimes I keep that song in my head for hours.haha

[@nomadeenvr2233]

Thank a lot for this great video! Wow! From Quebec, CANADA

[@TravelingRobert]

Glad you liked it

[@danfarrer5447]

The Navy Blue Angels train just west of where you were videoing, so you likely caught one of their training sessions. Love your videos!! Keep up the great work.

[@cardiffst]

The production values on this vid were off the charts. The drone shot of you driving along - Wow. 👏🏻👏🏻

[@TravelingRobert]

Thank you!

[@johnsenesi9095]

Great Video Robert thanks for sharing

[@brighton_dude]

I'm loving your videos. I only discovered your channel recently. This one gave us a great view of parts of California that we don't normally see. I never knew California had actual "real desert" areas with sand dunes ☺

[@jimgiordano3613]

great video. thank you Robert.

[@TravelingRobert]

Thank you!

[@johnnyc4200]

Very good video Robert.You just showed me places we do not want to go. So Thank you for the heads up we will bypass that part of the state.Good drone flying you. I have a Mavic pro you can go 3 miles out.I have went with my Mavic 1 1/2 miles out, I use the DJI crystal sky monitor with mine it up.It is a supper monitor it stays charged for 7 hours, So with the Mavic pro Batteries and the monitor you can fly for 3 to 4 hours on one charge.I would like to see a map of how you went step by step across the USA in the city's and the highways you took.

[@TravelingRobert]

Yeah, gotta show the ugly California before I show the pretty. The farthest I've flown my Mavic was about a mile away, last weekend actually in the Florida Keys.

[@johnnyc4200]

Let's see the video a mile away in the Key's.Have you checked out the crystal sky monitor. It is supper when flying. www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1333924-REG/dji_crystalsky_7_85_ultra_bright_monitor.html?ap=y&c3api=1876%2C92051678882%2C%2C&gclid=Cj0KCQjwkd3VBRDzARIsAAdGzMAVui_d2BRAz3RSLJsWxALZH6nVUVzA2Axj7tmESnj79s6XWNFcjYsaAnzdEALw_wcB

[@MEugeneDavis]

The US Navy has their west coast training center for the demonstration team The Blue Angels a few miles from where you were. You saw them practicing.

[@sanantoniotexas3296]

Very great videos

[@TravelingRobert]

Thanks!

[@SkittlesRevenge]

That Sunrise is to die for!!!

[@TravelingRobert]

Yes it is. Nothing like the sunrises and sunsets in the desert.

[@greatquotestoliveby]

If you get a chance I would highly recommend checking out Mono Lake and the abandoned mining town near it called Bodie.

[@RedroomStudios]

all my trips to California have concentrated on the coastal areas with a bit of driving through the San Joaquin Valley. I would like to go see the desert one of these times. so many post apocalyptic sci-fi movies have been filmed in the areas you drove through. I'm like you though... it is sad to see all the decay not to mention the junk accumulated by many of the people who live out there. it was great to see you finally reach civilization at the end and I see you have the next video in the series posted now. the coast is the California of our collective imagination and I am not ashamed to say that is the part I truly love!

[@tedshokes6560]

Truly an excellent video for us wanna be RVers. Really enjoyed it, you seem to hitting your stride lol!

[@postalmike]

Thank you

[@July4.1776]

Great content as always. Editing is superb!

[@TravelingRobert]

Thank you!

[@victormanz9451]

Just Perfect!

[@TravelingRobert]

Thanks!

[@captfishsticks]

Love your videos Robert. Feels like I'm taken the trip with you. LoL...brian

[@TravelingRobert]

Thank you Brian

[@carolapostolos8929]

Wow... Slab City sure is a sad bizarre-looking place. But to each his own. Thank you for showing us not only the pretty tourist sites in your videos but also some of the less aesthetic areas of our country. Be safe.

[@TravelingRobert]

Slab City, certainly not a very aesthetic place, except for the mountains surrounding the area.... and if you are into that kind of "art"...

[@dannywhitlock8309]

Hi, Robert 👍🏻👊🏻 I enjoyed watching your awesome travel adventure into California and visiting Slab City, it kinda reminded me of a movie I’ve watched where people were eating body parts and they were using psychedelic drugs, all those abandoned buildings I’m glad you got to fly the drone it’s so cool to see landscapes and cities from the air. Thanks for sharing, enjoy and have a Great week !!! Danny

[@TravelingRobert]

It is a surreal place. Thank you!

[@dannywhitlock8309]

Traveling Robert 👍🏻 I will be looking forward to your next travel adventure !!!

[@bobcooper6475]

love yur videos robert

[@bongbongtravels6108]

California is so damn beautiful im moving to Arkansas.

[@takayama1638]

We plan to get out west and boondock when Ethyl retires. If my health holds to at least where it is now... Wow, you can control drone while driving? Those are always interesting videos, I never thought to ask how y'all do that! I like the way you say that; made of stuff, basically junk. Heheheee, that's the truth. I agree about the trash!! There's no excuse for that! Robert, I usually can't stand background music, but you are one of the few who knows how to do it!

[@ralphb.3802]

What make and model of drone did you use in this video?

[@kranthi6956]

Hello Mr.Robert. Would you be doing a pacific coast highway trip?

[@TravelingRobert]

Not this time. Had to head back east

[@jms60]

nice video Robert have nice trip be safe friend

[@threeicys]

Wow Robert - taking youtube to a new level."The par setter"

[@TravelingRobert]

Thank you!

[@audiotechlabs4650]

Is there a campfire ban where you are? Great channel. Thanxz

[@jamesfarnham1976]

Thanks for sharing this...I know where not to go.

[@hyflyin1]

Robert, your videos I enjoy so so much !! I would like a few questions... You stop at many rest stops for overnight - does your propane run your heat, hot water, and air conditioning? How many rest stops offer potable water and waste tank dumps? When you drive all day does it charge your batteries? DO you have an inverter?

[@TravelingRobert]

Propane runs heat, hot water and refrigerator, for AC I need to run the generator. As for rest stops it depend on the state, and even the area. Most don't. The engine does trickle charge the battery, and I have a 2000w inverter for the computer and to charge the phone and camera batteries

[@hyflyin1]

Thanks again for you time!! I appreciate it!!

[@jesussaenz1813]

Hello. What is the model of your drone and how much did it cost?

[@TravelingRobert]

DJI Mavic Pro, art the time 1000

[@compachiwas9777]

Otro buen video amigo Robert

[@TravelingRobert]

Gracias!

[@hyflyin1]

Another question please - are you using a "return to home" gps feaure to get your drone back? Which drone is it?

[@TravelingRobert]

DJI Mavic Pro. I haven't used the return to home feature, but I see it on the GPS map, so I know which direction is home

[@yankeebiscuitfan]

I am wondering how you do that. Driving and drone flying at the same time.

[@martyrose]

Dutch Baseball Hangout If you look back at some of his older videos, he has a Go Pro attached to the top, front of his trailer. This could be part of the explanation. I think it's a cool idea!

[@ehmmmjay9907]

Drones have a "follow me" mode.

[@rafaelmdiaz11]

Hey Robert, 32:50 are those transition lenses on your glasses ?

[@VenerableYorge]

Robert, the cdbaby links to buy your music needs to be updated, because they show an error. Saludos!

[@TravelingRobert]

Let me check. They seem to be working for me. Don't what the problem might be.

[@VenerableYorge]

Thanks for answering Robert. You're right, unfortunately it's my app on ipad 3 that shows links truncated. In my new smartphone this does not happen.

[@seabeevet9285]

Robert,Love your aerial shots of the desert!! Please slow down your panaramic views when you are rotating the drone. I can't look fast enough and miss out on some of the terrain features. But otherwise you do a fantastic job and I look forward to getting your videos!! Keep up the GREAT work! Be safe.

[@patti8732]

I think you have the most soothing voice I have ever heard. Thanks for all the time you take to share these amazing places.

[@wanderingtravels2488]

Hello uncle Robert Are you traveling alone? Regardless, please be safe. I know you’ve want to do this trip for several years and looks like your having a great time. I’ve missed the last several Live stream on Fridays. Are u still doing Friday stream?

[@tinanichols893]

The reasons why Bombay Beach still has residents, are because for one; some of the people who used to live there is the 1970's did not give up and move, after the floods. Two, California offered some LA inner city residents peace and safety if they came out to the desert. And three, back in the mid 2000's, land was being sold for cheap. You could get land (a land lot) for less than $3,000.

[@hyflyin1]

Can I ask, what camera are you using when you "walk around" locations?

[@TravelingRobert]

Sony FDR AX33 or Sony FDR X3000

[@Collwila]

The sand dunes in the Sahara are much bigger (higher) .and more of them per square mile. Love the editing.

[@StewartHines]

Man. Been waiting on this one. Started listening to your podcast last week and heard you mention it a few times.

[@TravelingRobert]

Hope you liked it

[@StewartHines]

Loved it, as always. Thanks for sharing.

[@emillarsson8149]

Hi Robert was it warm in CA?

[@johng4250]

Have you any idea how long and hard Charo has worked on keeping that accent? You have done a wonderful job of being kind to your local (slab) so called artist.

[@TravelingRobert]

Thank you, by the way who's Charo?

[@dereknemeth9894]

How can we see you up in the air while you are driving the rv are you flying the drone at the same time

[@icecoast]

Derek Nemeth most drones you can have them track an object automatically

[@wildeninja2836]

They really be METHIN around out there lol

[@LA_Concr3t3ros3]

Your voice is so relaxing I felt like I was listening to Antonio banderas maybe it’s just me but I enjoyed it great video 😊

[@TravelingRobert]

Thank you!

[@Happycamper1998]

Do you detach your RV for just over night trips?

[@TravelingRobert]

If I don't need to go anywhere with the tow vehicle by itself I leave it hitched up

[@robertgordon7328]

The Blue Angels flying.

[@dmalott0908]

That was pretty sweet indeed!

[@SteveB647]

I noticed that The Salton Sea is one of the few bodies of water which you didn't taste. Good call!

[@bobcooper6475]

leonard was a amazing artist r.i.p mr knight

[@rccomo1144]

Robert I understand your comments but my point is we have more than our share of bad places in Southern California

[@TravelingRobert]

I see your point. It is unfortunate

[@graciemaemarie11jones16]

nothing like the dump that is 'escape from new york state' a large cesspool...freezing....dark....gray.....

[@monstersofthemidw100]

Got enough ads on this bitch rob

[@hummer4u2nv11]

Awesome video...who control the drone between 4:20-4:55? Because you are already driving KIA :-) This was good to see. I never heard or seen of these places before and it was 'interesting' to see but apparently I don't have what it takes to appreciate "art" either :-) I sort of liked the Slab City monument but the rest was too bleak and run down in my opinion. I will just enjoy it thru your video only and let other people experience the many smells you found there for themselves. Seems like many of these places I would not want to visit...how come YOU went here? You do pretty good research and planning before going places, so what did you think was good to make plans for these places? Makes me feel like a "desert version" of the Ghettos I grew up in Miami, Opa-Locka, and Liberty City when I was a kid during last few years of the 70s and early 80s. You know when the 'Cocaine Cowboys' and Griselda Blanco was running their game around my neighborhood. Anyways thank you for taking time and effort to make & share this video. I would of rather of stayed in the Keys again compared to the time and money you spent on this looong trip to visit these run down places. But again I say apparently I don't have what it takes to appreciate dilapidated stuff :-) sucks to be me. I guess there NO hope and I will just have to endure with my lack of skills and learn how to 'suffer' while I am Beachin, Breezin, and Chillin near the Ocean and somewhere cleaner :-)

[@TravelingRobert]

Haha, thanks, one hand on the wheel. I had seen this places in other videos and it was kind of on the way to where I went next. It was an experience for sure.

[@AboveAlways]

Wow, I didn't know people lived in the Saltan Sea area! I don't remember seeing that on any videos. That's cool

[@rccomo1144]

Robert we have our share of bad places in Southern California as you find out

[@TravelingRobert]

Sometimes I like to show the ugly as much as the pretty. Next video will be the pretty ☺

[@graciemaemarie11jones16]

not as many as new york state, probably the ugliest state, scenery wise, and HORRID weather in the whole country...where i am, all is dirty brown....dead...desolite....COLD.... GRAY....GRAY....dark and hideous...depressive...despondent looking...deeply dark/forlorn....new york state,(my prison) north of utica (a dumpy run down city)

[@woodsmn8047]

I understand that there are occasional toxic algal blooms and botchalisim outbreaks that cause massive fish kills which cover certain beaches with dead fish...two or three layers deep for miles then it REALLY smells ...for a few months until the fish mostly rot...you got there on a good day

[@Fjordarshwedagon]

Aaa..it is that song again.5.29..another one which you can remember.