Slab City// Solo Woman Travels Alone to Slab City: Day 1

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] the Hat a sundress got the tats showing I think I'm ready for slab see all right [Music] take me down to this lab city I don't know why I have the song in my head Paradise City take me down to the Paradise City where the grass is breathe but take me down to the slabby city where the slabs are gritty and the people are dirty no that's gonna offend people take me down to a slab slab City where the slabs are dirty and the people are greedy oh won't you please take me Oh take me down to the slap slab city where the slabs are dirty and the people are greedy oh my gosh I spent way too much time alone and radio in my rig does not work which I don't mind when I was driving my friend Bob's van back from California I turned on the radio I was like oh a radio oh and I can only handle about 10 minutes of it sensitized to noise living on the road the music that I used to love to listen to is just hard to hear classic rock I can do but the pop stuff some of the R&B and stuff like that I can't really listen to any really really mellow classic rock made but yeah I don't miss having a radio so I'll just sing and make up my own songs take me down do this lab city where the grass where there is no grass and the slabs are gritty I bet you never knew what a horrible voice I am [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so here I am my first night of slab city I shot a whole bunch of footage today with no sound on so I've got a lot of great footage driving in but I'm probably just gonna have to put it to music and I'm keeping it a little bit on the DL about me videoing around here just because you don't know what's out here and who doesn't want to be seen so I'm trying to just kind of fly under the radar so as many of you know I'm sorry I'm looking at the screen as many of you know I normally like to go out away from everybody but I wanted to experience lab city so here I am right in the thick of things and I'll pan a little bit out so you can't see me but you'll see over there there are some compound homesteads and I'm gonna can you see behind me I'm gonna stand up and show you I'll act like I'm taking a picture so yeah here I am in the thick of things hi I'm right off the main road coming into slab city I decided I want this live city experience so I'm gonna hang out I'll stop looking at myself so I'm gonna hang out here alright let's see there you go so I'm gonna hang out here for the night and experience slab city all by my lonesome so I drove through and there is nothing here that that made me afraid I have lived in some really know tough neighborhoods in Oakland in Berkeley in San Francisco so there is nothing here so far that has scared me and my cautious of course because I'm in a new place I don't know what kind of element is here I've seen a few people who might be partaking a little bit in some illegal substances yeah so there might be a little bit of that around and of course when you're dealing with tweakers you know they can be volatile and you just never know so I'm I'm being cautious and that means being a woman alone in Slab City and I know a lot of you are gonna think I'm crazy and you know I've been dying to come here for a long time just to experience it but I also just want to show you know my life is about living fearlessly I don't buy into out of the hype that mainstream media wants us to buy into and and I've said that before so you know another motive for coming here was to show people it's hard to look at that it's hard to look at that I want to I don't feel like I'm looking at anything I can't see it but part of the reason I wanted to come here is to show people that you can't believe everything that you read you can't believe everything you see sure just like any area I'm sure there are instances of crime but overall what I've seen so far is nothing to be afraid of so here I am my first night alone in Slab City just wanted to check in with you and prove that don't believe everything you hear don't believe the hype don't believe if you're mongering the world is not a scary place even in a place like Slab City all right I'll check in with you tomorrow [Music]

Channel: Carolyn's RV Life

Views: 156,686

Keywords: RVLife, east jesus, Slab city, california, The slabs, #FreeCapone, solo travel, Road trip, RV Living, southern california, #FREECAPONE, RVer Solo Woman RVer, art, salvation mountain, salton city

Id: Y3oNM53oEtg

Length: 14min 52sec (892 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 28 2017