Allie Ward

But then I guess you could think of it as a temptress in that way, perhaps.

Like a siren of the land.

You don't know what's down there when you're looking at a lake and you got yourself a spooky lake.

Stinky Lakes.

Let's talk about the Salton Sea.

Has the Salton Sea been the stinkiest lake you've ever been to?

So the Salton Sea is a result of a big water oopsie when in 1905, a deluge from a spring flood breached these canal walls and flooded a dry lake bed for years, turning it into a big wet lake bed.

And as the waters evaporated over time, got saltier and saltier.

But in its heydays, like in the 1950s and 60s,

The Salton Sea, just a few hours from Hollywood, was this bustling getaway with vacation homes and resorts and shops and nightclubs along this strip called Bombay Beach, which is where Frank Sinatra would croon.

And decades later, the water evaporated along with the tourism and the money, leaving behind skeletons of a lot of fish on the lake bed and a bunch of rusted out trailers where there once were resorts.

And just it's like rise and fall as a recreation area for like Angelenos needing an escape.

And it is truly one of the worst places I've ever been.

I remember my mom.

My mom had the stomach flu when we went there once.

Poor.

woman, Fancy Nancy, in the back of the van, already retching.

And then we roll up to the Salton Sea for a family reunion.

She did not deserve that.

She didn't deserve it.