The first stop for us was Salton Sea Beach. Describing this community is quite difficult as I have never experienced anything like it. Before I visited, I was told that it “looks like an atomic bomb went off”; “people just appeared to have fled, leaving all of their possessions behind”; “salt encrusts everything”; and that is "HOT." Now having visited briefly, I would say all of that rings true. It was 114 degrees Fahrenheit when we arrived in the late afternoon and it truly looked like a bomb had gone off and then several floods had occurred. Graffiti adorned almost everything that remained. Furniture, appliances, old televisions, and other personal possessions sat outside to bake in the scorching sun.