We made it as far as Joshua Tree National Park. In this episode we cover a couple of hikes where we were able to get out and enjoy the diversity of the park. Join us as we stroll through the Maze loop and Black Canyon, and the Panorama Loop. https://youtu.be/zCUj7V7hC0U
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.
Joshua Tree wasn’t really on the list for this trip. We’d been before and had spent several days touring, hiking and camping in the park. We had a lot of other places on our list. It just so happened that we were going to be in the neighborhood after a day of trip chores. A trip into town to catch up on things we needed to do after a couple weeks on the road: laundry, a trip to the store and new tires had all been checked off the list. We needed a place to camp for the night. We headed to Joshua Tree National Park.
