Jim Devevan is not your average RVer. Yes, he has an RV, a converted bus. Maybe you've heard of him. He is an artist that makes temporary drawings on sandy beaches and scratched into ice. But not too many artists--I'm sure you can count them on one thumb--produce their art with the full knowledge that it will eventually be erased by forces of nature--waves and weather. And we're not talking here about a mere sand castle. Jim's art is large. Very large, stretched over--in some cases--an acre or more. Sometimes he manages to just finish his artwork before the tide comes in and obliterates it forever.
But this time Jim has out done himself. He has used his converted bus motorhome to create a massive art work by scratching and dragging an impression into the sands of the Mojave Desert in Nevada. Did I mention that this particular piece of art is massive? In fact, it stretches across the Nevada Desert for nine miles. He had to use a GPS to create it. In fact, it is the largest art work in the world. From ground level, it looks much like the famous desert intaglios, also etched into the desert floor by pre-historic Native Americans near Blythe and Quartzsite. From up close, you can't tell what is is, other than a disrupted section of sand and rocks. But from overhead, wow!
I mention this as a heads up to boondockers. As you know, you can boondock just about anywhere in the desert on BLM land. But when you head out onto a dry lake or low and flat desert floor, you just might want to stop and look before you cross any piece of ground that looks like it was scratched into the surface by man. It may be a piece of artwork, whether by Jim or another budding artist. What a neat way to boondock that would be, right next to a massive piece of human artistic creation. Learn more about desert camping with my new eBook, Snowbird Guide to Camping and Boondocking in the Southwestern Deserts.
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