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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…
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Tucson: Outdoor Edition
After leaving our newly beloved first boondocking site at Las Cienegas NCA, we circled the city of Tucson for a few weeks. I say circled because we never really went to the city. When you are in the world’s Covid-19 hotspot while it is the hotspot, you don’t take any chances. Urban streets and museums went unexplored. Breweries and restaurants remained not visited. However, we did not waste any opportunity to enjoy the area’s parks and trails. Or to spend time with all our new cactus friends. Frenemies? We started out in the Tucson Mountains west of the city at Gilbert Ray Campground, inside Pima County’s Tucson Mountain Park. It’s…
