The Sultan Sea

The Sultan Sea is an expansive salt water created accidentally by a flood and maintained by agricultural runoff. With no natural flow of water in or out the sea is destined to die evaporating into an ever saltier state. The road keeps tipping down and then up sharply which is disconcerting in a truck like this. We're turning off a highway in a town called Nieland at the hollowed out ruin of a corner store where someone is left a dog, a pony and a horse all hitched together under a broken wall. Past this is a scattering of houses and trailers and then an electrical substation in some railroad tracks and then a concrete pill box pre painted with the words slab city