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A Desert Oasis
In between our two boondocking visits to Joshua Tree National Park, we spent a week at an RV park near Palm Springs in the Coachella Valley. Built upon a large aquifer in the Colorado Desert, the greater Palm Springs area is a man-made oasis of golf resorts and swimming pools. And of course, has several native California fan palm oases along the faults that crisscross the area. Most RV parks are located in the town of Desert Hot Springs and offer hot spring soaking pools. We stayed at the Sky Valley Resort which was about 90% retirement/vacation homes and 10% RV parking. The city of Palm Springs is known for…
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Nature’s Rock Garden: Joshua Tree National Park
We arrived at Joshua Tree National Park a day earlier and left a week later than originally planned. That’s how excited we were to visit and how much we loved this National Park. We also needed more time because a few days were so windy we couldn’t leave the camper for fear it might blow away while we were gone. We had two very convenient home bases provided by the BLM, one 5 minutes from the southern entrance and one 20 minutes from the northern entrances of the park. Unlike the campgrounds inside which are so adorable that they sort of made us want to go tent camping again, these…
