Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Day 26 - Feb 3 - Twentynine Palms

Today we did the Joshua National Park tour. Left ELTORO at about 9:00AM and headed south to higher land from Twentynine Palms. Stopped at the Park Headquarters and Info Place.
bought a One Year National Park Pass for $80 ( We have found that money well spent as it covers all US National Parks, BLM Land, and Federal Recreational Land.) In the past we have found that a lot of the sites that we visit fall under one of these categories, and the costs soon add up. So then we continued on into the park, and saw a million (I'm sure) Joshua trees, a lot of outstanding rock formations - huge boulders strewn about in mountainous piles, great desert scenes, etc., etc. We also saw some little critters. Mainly lizards, Squirrels, a type of gopher, and

some birds. The piles of rock remind us of a very industrious farmer who has piled rocks from his field in these huge piles. But this is on a very large scale!!! Took a couple of short strolls through the more interesting rock gardens. All paths are well maintained and easy walking as the ground is a soft, but fairly firm sandy material, No steep climbs or slippery sideslopes! One of the viewpoints we went to was called Keys view. And from there at 5185 ft elevation we could




look down on the entire Coachella Valley that Palm Springs to Salton Sea. We could see all the cities, San Andreas Fault, and even the windfarms west of Palm Springs.Back to the Rocks, we
did see some adventureous soles doing some rock climbing! I guess this is a fairly famous place for this extreme sport. It's Ok for them but definitely not for me !! AND FOR SURE NOT DENICE!Got back out of the park at 5:00PM at Joshua Valley, and returned to ELTORO at the
RV Park for hamburgers for supper.We were out of cell coverage all day and when we got back to reception area had a call from my cousin Shirley in LA. Called her back and set up timing to meet Her and Don at Riverside at the Mission Inn on Thursday at 11:30AM for lunch. We will book an additional day here at the Park so now will not be leaving until Friday.

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