South to Spring | Organ Pipe Part 1
As forecasted, the wind blew through the night. Typically in our Four Wheel Camper wind doesn’t bother us, but this was another level of wind. The roof was flexing and popping and the sides of the camper were billowing in and out. It was going to be another windy day in Anza Borrego Desert State Park. We packed up camp and drove to a place where we could find internet coverage so we could study the extent of the predicted high winds. It appeared that the wind was going to last at least the next two to three days and cover all of southern California, even reaching over to Nevada and northern Arizona and beyond. But it did appear the far southern reaches of Arizona were out of the wind path. And there it was, a little spot saved on our Google map as “want to go” right on the border of Mexico. Organ Pipe National Monument was a five hour drive, but the weather looked gorgeous, no wind and temps in the 70’s. Not bad for the first of March. Not seeing another option if we wanted to escape the predicted 80 mile per hour gusts, we gave in, pointed the truck east and made the five hour drive.
