South to Spring | Conversation With a Ranger
I heard the strange sound as the white National Park Service Vehicle approached. It might have been a hovercraft mixed with a spaceship type of sound, but really it was just the extra noise electric vehicles make to let you know they are there and running. They stopped right in front of our campsite as the driver started poking the screen of his tablet and the passenger sat there and looked on. “I have to go and ask”, I said. I had to know why Joshua Tree National Park has the most onerous and wasteful system for purchasing a campsite of anywhere in the country. We’d been to 26 states in the past 12 months, and camped everywhere we went. I could think of a more idiotic system than the one they had devised here.
