Travels Archive

Around the country, and around the globe, blogging.

• Joshua Tree, the Morning After

  The evenings were very nice in Joshua Tree. The temperatures dipped into the low seventies (measured on the Fahrenheit scale) and a swift breeze kept the tents even cooler throughout the night. The moonlight allowed us to make late-night trips to the restroom without any real trouble at all. But, again, the howl of coyotes [...]

• Joshua Tree, Day One

  Arriving at Joshua Tree a little past six o’clock in the evening on Friday (following a twelve-hour drive from the Bay Area, mostly due to traffic in the hell that is the LA area, but also because of a one-and-a-half-hour delay resulting from running out of gas, which prompted the construction of a make-shift shelter [...]

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