Archive for the 'Slab City' Category

Everyone can benefit from a week in Slab City

Slab City is home for hundreds of people during the winter season — and a few dozen during the blistering summer season. They come for many reasons, some by choice and some from circumstances that keep them there. They often seek something different EMERGENCY work will be done to a city building after a granite [...]

Slab City, Here We Come: Living Life Off the Grid in California's Badlands

Slab City, their home for the past three months, is a squatters' camp deep in the badlands of California's poorest county, where the road ends and the sun reigns, about 190 miles southeast of Los Angeles and hour's drive from Melbourne city workers are amazed no one was killed when a large concrete slab fell [...]