Elmer Long’s Bottletree Ranch along Route 66 near Oro Grande, Calif., is so unusual, it seemed inevitable the Los Angeles Times would come calling.
And it has.
And an interesting admission by Long:
By his own account, Long was once judgmental of people, easy to anger, a man who settled scores. But a decade of building bottle trees and topping them with other people’s discards has changed him, he says.
“I’ve got a lot of time to think, to plan. And I use that time wisely,” he says. “I’m free of any kind of worry. I’m free of any feelings of confrontation.”
In the past decade, the Bottletree Ranch has pretty much become a must-stop for Route 66 travelers. This short film helps show why:
https://vimeo.com/17589175