At the foothills of the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto mountains we are staying in a county park for 8 nights in site #42 (a good quiet spot by the wide open primitive camping area and beside a host trailer – near the end of the loop).  The park is situated around man made Lake… Continue reading Lake Cahuilla County Park, California

We drove through the park from South to North.  The park is vast and is actually 2 deserts that converge midway – The Mojave desert and the Colorado desert.  The Joshua trees grow only in the Mojave desert areas.  We did a couple short hikes – to a ranch to see old adobe style buildings… Continue reading Joshua Tree con’t

Time to move inland for a while.  Off to Joshua Tree National Park. Dreading the drive toward L.A (can you say TRAFFIC!!), we got some advice from staff at the visitor center in Oceano – she had done the drive many times and gave us a route to follow, avoiding the worst of L.A traffic. … Continue reading Joshua Tree National Park, California