You don't need to worry about border patrol checkpoints. There is a INS inspection 10 miles west of Slab City, but they don't usually inspect and if they do, you don't need ato show an ID. They'll just look at you and ask you were you were born. (are you an immigrant?)
It's been awhile since I made this thread. Definitely the fastest way to bus/hitch to Slab City from where you are is this:
1.) Take the Metro Orange Line to Hollywood. (last stop) $1.25
2.) Take the Red Line to Union Station. (last stop) $1.25
A note on these is that you don't really need to pay. The red line sometimes checks tickets, but you can often find them on the ground or in trash cans that aren't expired. Or ask people coming out of the subway.
3.) Take the metrolink from Union Station to San Bernardino. $8 on weekends. I would just get a ticket for 3 or 4 stops up. They don' usually check past this.
4.) Take the Omnitrans line 1 towards "Del Rosa" get off about 2 miles from here at the San Bernardino transit center. This bus is free with your metrolink ticket.
5.) From the transit center, take either the omnitrans line 8 or 9. Get off on Yucaipa Blvd. in Yucaipa.
6.) Walk to I-10. It's about a half mile or so.
7.) Start hitching! A sign for Indio is best. It's about 60 miles from here. This is a good onramp. The advice i gave in my tutorial about hitching to Hemet and up hwy 74 is crap. That takes sooo much longer than this.
8.) get off in Indio at "Golf Center Parkway" Make a right. See if your ride can give you a lift to the bus stop on hwy 111/flower. It's about a mile from I-10. (turn right on 111 and it's right there. "Sun Bus" building.)
9.) Take the line 91 bus to 4th St in Mecca. Ask the bus driver. The bus is $1.
10.) there's a gas station here, accepts food stamps has groceries. Fill up on water, make a sign for Niland and start hitching down 111. It's roughly 40 miles to Slab City from here.
If you start early in the morning, with luck you'll be in Slab City about late afternoon. Trip will be about $10 for buses. Maybe a little less, maybe a little more.
Good Luck!
