South to Spring | Anza Borrego Part 1

We left Joshua Tree National Park and were still headed south in our quest to find spring. We were headed just about as far south as you can get without a passport, Anza Borrego State Park. At nearly 600,000 acres Anza Borrego is large for a state park, and overall it isn’t overly developed either. We were starting to see some wildflower reports so our timing was looking good.

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Video: Strolling Through Joshua Tree | South to Spring Episode 4

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

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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.

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