Anza Borrega

 1/24- Joshua Tree RV Park, Joshua Tree CA

  Siri wanted to lead us on a much more boring path this morning so we had to trick her into going our way. We headed out into the Anza Borrego State Forest. It was a spectacularly beautiful drive. We stopped every couple of miles in awe. The desert was green and lots of things were blooming. We saw several yucca plants in full bloom and tons of lupine growing along the sides of hills. The vistas were incredible. 

  The next road we scaled the side of a mountain. I mean it was twisty curvy no guardrails with a 1000 foot drop over the edge of the pavement kind of road. We crawled along at 20 mph having to pull over just to let cars by until we came to the high plain at the top. It was all very amazing scenery especially being only 100 miles from LA. 

  We passed through the Santa Rosa mountains and finally plunged down into Palm Springs. It went from being 50 degrees to 20 miles later being 75 out. The road down was so winding back and forth I could see the road two levels below me as we traversed across the mountain. 

   In Palm Springs we hopped on Rt10 fortunately for only 20 miles as the traffic was scary. We are talking about a highway 6 lanes across with a 70 mph speed limit. We turned off that and headed up over the pass to Joshua Tree. 

  The campground is just a dirt parking lot but it did have electricity and water. We had decided that we would not go into the park to stay or rather that was decided for us. It being a Saturday there were no available campsites which made it easy for us. We did walk into town and had dinner at the old saloon in town. The place was mobbed as people think it is cold here. The temps might get as low as 45 tonight!

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