Oro Grande is actually extremely desolate, especially in the place where Xiao Peng and they are called Helendel, there are not a few houses in sight. Updates are fast and ad-free. But Helendel had a place where anyone who passed Route 66 would come in and see: an obvious gate next to the road, a wheel, an iron ox, a trident of tree-like iron frames, and a bottle hanging from it. This is the legendary Bottle Forest.

About the Bottle Forest, it should be said that it is an old man who picks up rags and is related to his son of an artistic fan. Residents of Oro Grande have always had the habit of collecting waste. Helendel has a family surnamed Lang, Lao Lang took Xiaolang out to pick up things discarded by people in the desert when Xiaolang was very young, all kinds of waste, all kinds of bottles, and other garbage can be sold for money, and the bottles are not easy to sell, so they are piled up there.

Later, Xiaolang grew up, went to the navy, got married and had children. But he never gave up his habit of picking up garbage. After he retired, in order to commemorate his dead father, he erected steel pipes one by one on the ground, and inserted wine bottles one by one into these steel pipes.

Despite its remoteness, this peculiar bottle forest has been discovered and advertised by tourists who come and go, turning it into a peculiar sight on Route 66 that everyone who passes by will come to see here. And the influence here is also growing, this year's Qindao International Beer Festival venue, near the venue, a similar bottle forest has also been established, of course, much smaller than here, there are more than a dozen bottle trees on the island side, and there are at least hundreds of bottle trees here. It covers an area of tens of thousands of square meters.

Xiao Peng parked the car, and several people carried their luggage bags together and walked into this wonderful bottle forest. Xiao Peng took pictures with his camera, and when he walked here, it felt like he had traveled to another world, where all kinds of waste transformed into wonderful works of art: printers from decades ago, discarded old guns, tattered jeeps, and forests dotted with colorful bottles. Each tree has its own unique design, has different thoughts, and has its own unique label, and when you are in it, you will feel like you have strayed into another time and space.

And Amilia, who likes to paint, is even more happy: "Xiao Peng, can we stay here for one night at night?"

Xiao Peng smiled: "No problem, I'll set up the tent." ”

Alashi asked, "You live here, what about me?"

Xiao Peng said speechlessly: "You want to leave? Okay, wait for me, I'll move the motorcycle down." After saying that, Xiao Peng ran out, found a backing board, and really pushed the motorcycle down: "That's it!

Lacey looked at Emilia with a speechless expression: "Amilia, have you always been with such an ungentlemanly person? This person is too boring, right?"

Emilia whispered, "Well, well, I don't know why he did this, maybe it had something to do with you almost hitting him." ”

Emilia was right, in fact, it really had something to do with Arecy almost bumping into Xiao Peng, Xiao Peng almost exposed her secret because of her recklessness, can she not be angry?

In the bottle forest, there was the sound of a guitar, Xiao Peng followed the prestige, there was an RV on the side of the bottle forest, and there were already people sitting there playing the piano for entertainment. The Bottle Forest is free for all guests, there are no tickets here, no fees are required, travelers are welcome to visit casually, and of course, if you donate here, you can get a special glass souvenir. In fact, it is a small round glass bulb, and there is no marking, which is basically the same as buying it on the road, that is, a mind.

The guitar was played by a man in his sixties, sitting next to three women, one older and two younger. The men's guitar level is good, and several women are wearing bohemian clothes and sitting and listening, which looks very elegant, but looking at the expressions of several people are a little weird, looking lazy, this is drunk in broad daylight?

"They're hippies. Arecy whispered.

"Are there hippies in the United States now?" Xiao Peng asked with confusion. Xiao Peng has read the report, 'hippie culture' was a kind of popular culture forty or fifty years ago, in general, from the sixties onwards, a considerable number of young people in the West disdained tradition, abandoned morality, consciously distanced themselves from the mainstream society, and had a unique way of life that could not be tolerated in the mainstream society to express their rebellion against the real society, and were called hippies. Well, it can be understood as Huaxia's 'killing Matt', 'non-mainstream' and the like.

Rock 'n' roll and drugs are an inseparable part of their lives, and when she was interviewed about drugs by a hippie, she said this: Everyone should take drugs, even children, why can't they wake up sooner, and wait until they are old? Human beings need complete freedom, God is there, we need to eliminate hypocrisy, fraud, deception, and return to the purity of the values that we had as children.

In Huaxia, such a bastard woman should be shot a thousand times! Let children take drugs? Lose Nima to think of it! No wonder looking at those people who are lazy and lazy, this Nima is smoking.

Alacy answered Xiao Peng's question: "Of course, when Jobs was alive, he said that he was a hippie, and he and all his colleagues were hippies. In fact, hippies are also a kind of attitude to life, in the eyes of these people, life is not only work, family, property, career, it is richer, just like a coin has another side, although everyone does not say it, but in the interval of life, especially when it is unsatisfactory, we can feel a certain impulse, many people want to find the meaning of life. Hippie culture is not just about drugs, alcohol and sex, it's also an attitude to life.

The hippies flourished in the United States, but if you want to say that their origins are from the former socialist Soviet Union. In the fifties of the last century, Western jazz and rock music began to be smuggled into the Soviet Union, and the young people of that era felt and indulged in music from across the ocean, but during the former Soviet Union, there was a shortage of social materials and backward music equipment, and it was too difficult to buy records. However, the predecessors of the fighting nation also had a way to cut out the circle from the discarded X-ray film in the hospital and engrave a Western music album on it, and a BONEMUSIC appeared. And then desperately spread it in the shadows. Although the former Soviet government suppressed it severely, it could not stop the enthusiasm of these Soviet youths, who smoked and drank alcohol every day, listened to alternative music, wore less socialist clothes, and gathered all day long to listen to music and party.

There was also a time in Huaxia that the young people of that time, ahem, that is, the parents of Xiao Peng's generation came from that era. Wear bell bottoms, grow long hair, play the guitar, and go to the dance hall to 'pat the mother-in-law'. Wang Shuo's book is a record of the story of that time. Now that I think about it, they all belong to the hippies.

However, the hippies in the Soviet Union and China have stayed in the long river of time, starting a family one by one, and having a new life, only the occasional 'non-mainstream', but the United States is different, the poor have good welfare, and they can be hippie as much as they want, and they can't die of hunger anyway, right? So it has become a way of life like motorcycle riders. At present, there are still many hippies in the United States, and the key to pursuing this kind of free life is because they are used to starving to death。。。。。。

After the song was finished, Xiao Peng applauded, several people waved hello to Xiao Peng and the others, Xiao Peng was busy setting up the tent, Emilia was busy painting, and Arecy 。。。。。。 Busy taking all kinds of selfies.

Xiao Peng took out the portable oven, this time he bought so many spices, he couldn't waste them, and there were two car refrigerators on the motorcycle, one of which was full of food. When you're full, you have the strength to keep going, don't you?

The people of the United States are inseparable from eating barbecue, but Xiao Peng does not know how to use the barbecue method of the United States, the people of the United States eat more barbecue, but in terms of taste, it is still more delicious to eat Chinese-style barbecue.

In fact, some people say that the BBQ of the rice country is much rougher and more simple than the Chinese one, which should be a certain misunderstanding, the barbecue of the rice country can be divided into many different types according to the region and the barbecue style, and the attention to the dipping sauce is definitely not simple, and the roasting method of different meats is also different, but the main difference is that the barbecue of the rice country is more slowly smoked and roasted with large pieces of meat, while the Chinese barbecue is mainly cut into small pieces of meat and skewered and grilled quickly.

Like the barbecue style here in California, Xiao Peng doesn't like it very much, they like to marinate the barbecue with sauce and then test, and over time, everyone can only remember their sauce. Although the barbecue in Huaxia must be marinated first, it will never be full of sauce like them.

However, Xiao Peng mainly prepares mutton, beef, and chicken, and there are not many pork, because here in the United States, pork is really, really and really hard to eat! Important things must be said three times! First of all, the pork in the United States is almost all urged by hormones, and second, the pigs in the United States are not as particular as in China, in China, in order to remove the fishy smell in the pork, the boars will be castrated to raise, in the United States, this is called inhumane, and this cannot be done. That's why the pork in rice is called a fishy smell.

But Xiao Peng still bought some pork, not to eat, but to refine the miraculous lard, what is the best oil to apply when barbecuing?

Just like in the TV show at that time, the Chinese chef and the French chef competed in cooking, and the French chef knew that the Chinese people couldn't cook without oil, so he directly robbed the oil and didn't let the Chinese chef use the oil, but the Chinese chef was even more straightforward, and directly refined a piece of lard to cook, which made the French chef call him cheating.

The biggest feature of lard is that it is fragrant, when Xiao Peng is almost roasted here, Emilia doesn't paint anymore, Lacey doesn't take selfies, and a few Beatles also come over.

"Your meat is really good. Someone behind Xiao Peng greeted him.

Xiao Peng looked back and was happy: "Hey, why are you here?"