So here we are, driving along a completely empty road in the middle of the desert...no lights, no cars, no sign of life whatsoever...joking about how creepy it is and how it reminds us of a horror movie. Suddenly, out of nowhere...dozens of moving shapes and colors illuminate a small building about 100 yards off the road...

I barely had enough time to pull out my camera and snap a quick picture before it was gone. The picture didn't turn out, but the image was permanently burned into our minds. I desperately wanted to turn around, but AJ was afraid it was the mutant hill people trying to lure us in, so he wouldn't slow down. (Plus, there was nowhere to do a u-turn in the RV.)

I pulled out my computer, and my good friend Google, and resolved to find out what I had just seen, no matter how long it took. But how do you even search for something like that? I knew we were on Amboy Road, so I tried that with every combination of "house", "building", "lights", "creepy", "weird", "dark", and many more, without any luck.

When we reached the next town, Twentynine Palms, we stopped at a gas station and asked the attendant, who looked at us as if we were crazy, and I almost wondered if we were. It was THAT weird.

I went back to the RV with a few more ideas for Google. I was about to give up for the time-being when I got a great idea..."If someone wrote an article about this, they would probably need to tell people how to get there..." I typed "amboy twentynine palms house miles lights" and there it was...

Finally.

Apparently, it's some crazy art project created by a woman named Helena Bongartz. She uses two projectors to light up the house for a few hours every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights. It is definitely one of the weirdest and coolest things I've ever seen. I really wish I could have gone back and looked at it some more.

After further research, I found another page talking about it, as well as Helena's personal website, with a bunch of pictures and videos. I plan on emailing her and telling her how much I enjoyed it.

I saw the Grand Canyon yesterday. Who cares? It's overrated. Honestly, this creepy little shack in the middle of nowhere had a much bigger impact on me. It amazes me that we just happened to drive on the right road, on the right day, at the right time. I am 100% positive that I will remember this for the rest of my life.

After checking out the video link you added about Helena Bongartz's art,I would have definitely been on your side to stop and check out the southern desert's weird, techno version of the amazing Northern Lights! In that setting, I can only imagine how awesome that unexpected light show would have been! Thanks for sharing that and thanks to Ms. Bongartz for making it.

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