Sunday, June 7- Travel day to Desert Hot Springs, CA and Joshua Tree
National Park.
We left at 8am and got to our destination around noon. Catalina Spa & RV Resort is a very nice
park. It has 482 sites with full
hookups. Each site is surrounded by
shrubs and trees. Someone did a nice job
with laying out all of the greenery.
After lunch we set out to Joshua Tree National Park. We spent the afternoon driving through this
natural beauty. It is surrounded by 5
different mountains. So you see
different vegetation and landscapes.
This is the third one of these that we have gone on so far and they all
hold their own beauty. We came back in
time for dinner and took a leisurely walk in the nice warm air at 85
degrees. After our walk we all decided
to go and check out the pool. It is
supplied with natural hot mineral water from the parks own well. The well is 186’ feet deep and the water is 120 degrees when it goes to
the pools. It was very relaxing and enjoyable. I don’t know how therapeutic it is but it
made us all feel good.
The morning started out early for the boys as they were
going to drive 1 ½ hours away to get our new solar panels and somewhere along
our trip they are going to mount them on the roof. Hopefully the temperatures will not be in the
100’s. The girls slept in a little later
and just relaxed. After the boys got
back we all went to the Palm Springs
Aerial Tramway. The tram reaches the top
of Mt. San Jacinto at 8516 feet. This is
going to get us out of the heat of the day we hope. We left out at about 1pm and the temperature
at our campsite was 109 degrees. HOT,
HOT, HOT. When we got to the Tram and purchased our tickets they said that the
temperature on top was 64 degrees. We
all welcomed that cool breeze. We ended
spending 5 hours walking trails, climbing rocks and taking pictures. The views were spectacular well worth the
money at $24 a person. The only wildlife
that we saw was a beautiful Steller’s Jay(no pic), a western gray squirrel and
lots of lizards. We took the tram back down and the desert was now 102 degrees.
We shared dinner,
spent some time in the hot spring pool and called it a night since we wanted to
get a real early start tomorrow. Our goal was to leave the campground at 5am.
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| Our ride to the top |
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| Amy & I found the pots of gold |
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| Jeffrey Pine |
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| Spiny lizard |
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| I am pushing real hard won't budge-not really |
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| dome rock |
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| We walked this trail from bottom to top |
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| pretty designs on the side of the mountain |
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| wind generators |
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