This is the Enlightenment Stupa before we got too far underway. It doesn't look bad from a distance, but up close the paint was really failing. This shot is from April 15th, after we tried to scrape it and couldn't go any farther. We tried this step, which is chemical stripper that had brought us success in the Stupa Park. It didn't work. We finally surrendered to what David Somerville our Stupa Building expert in Arizona said would be our only option...sand blasting...You can see that process in the May archive via the link on this page!