The mountain is about as tall as a three-story building and as wide as a football field. Leonard Knight has spent 14 years sculpting and painting Salvation Mountain in the California desert near Niland, in Imperial County, east of the Salton Sea, 200 miles from Los Angeles. To me, these are the things that thrill me a lot.” She ran up and down the mountain two or three times, and she was smiling at the old man and saying, ‘Thank you for coming here! That mountain is gorgeous! Can I go up there again?’ And he was happy, and she was happy, and I was grinning all over. And all of a sudden the mountain just grabbed her. ![]() But the old man wanted to come here, and he was paying her money to drive him, so she had to drive him here, and she was on the grumpy side. “A young girl was in Las Vegas driving an old man around,” Knight continues, “and she was having fun in Las Vegas, and she didn’t want to come to the mountain. He’s 67 years old, but he looks 10 years younger and has the energy of a young man and the enthusiasm of a boy. He speaks with a faint New England twang, and his eyes sparkle with life. ‘Did you see the Salton Sea up there? Did you see the waterfalls? Did you see the flowers?’ She was the center of that conversation for at least 10 minutes, and it really thrilled her heart that she went up there, and it thrilled my heart, too.” And when we came down she was the head of the conversation. And I said, ‘Well, I’ll help you up that mountain if you want to go up there.’ So her and I just went up that mountain, and she was all grins and talking and looking at everything up there. ![]() "One time a 91-year-old lady come up with three or four generations of her family, and there’s probably 17 people here, and they’re all going up the mountain, but she was down here, and they said that she was too old.
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