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We had to call an audible today. The original plan was to camp in Joshua Tree national park. We drove over from LA, stopping for incredible date shakes at Hadley's Orchard Stand along the way. Pulled off in Palm Springs as well to look at the architecture but were instead overwhelmed by the fact that the town is a giant tourist trap ringed by beautiful homes. And hot. blast-furnace hot.
We left Palm Springs after stocking up on camp food and headed over to Joshua Tree, another 30 miles or so into the desert. Unfortunately, we didn't have reservations because the two reservable campgrounds were full. But there were hundreds of first-come-first-served sites, so we figured we'd be OK. We figured wrong. And suddenly, we found ourselves without a place to stay in the middle of nowhere. Whoops.
We stopped for bad pizza in Twentynine Palms (really! That's the town name, typo and all!) and laid out our options: Stay at the motel there and still have hours to drive tomorrow (after hours and hours in the car today), or push forward and cut the drive time tomorrow significantly. Considering that the towns around the national park could be marketed as "Come for the trees, stay for the meth!" we decided to move on.
One long drive through the desert in the dark later and we found ourselves at a Motel 6 in Needles, California. It's never a good sign when the first room you're assigned has a naked person asleep in it, but the clerk at the desk gracefully recovered, and gave us a new room. And we would have all gotten a good night's sleep, had we not passed out all on the same bed crammed together being kicked by a two-year-old all night. Ouch.
Vegas awaits.
We had to call an audible today. The original plan was to camp in Joshua Tree national park. We drove over from LA, stopping for incredible date shakes at Hadley's Orchard Stand along the way. Pulled off in Palm Springs as well to look at the architecture but were instead overwhelmed by the fact that the town is a giant tourist trap ringed by beautiful homes. And hot. blast-furnace hot.
We left Palm Springs after stocking up on camp food and headed over to Joshua Tree, another 30 miles or so into the desert. Unfortunately, we didn't have reservations because the two reservable campgrounds were full. But there were hundreds of first-come-first-served sites, so we figured we'd be OK. We figured wrong. And suddenly, we found ourselves without a place to stay in the middle of nowhere. Whoops.
We stopped for bad pizza in Twentynine Palms (really! That's the town name, typo and all!) and laid out our options: Stay at the motel there and still have hours to drive tomorrow (after hours and hours in the car today), or push forward and cut the drive time tomorrow significantly. Considering that the towns around the national park could be marketed as "Come for the trees, stay for the meth!" we decided to move on.
One long drive through the desert in the dark later and we found ourselves at a Motel 6 in Needles, California. It's never a good sign when the first room you're assigned has a naked person asleep in it, but the clerk at the desk gracefully recovered, and gave us a new room. And we would have all gotten a good night's sleep, had we not passed out all on the same bed crammed together being kicked by a two-year-old all night. Ouch.
Vegas awaits.
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