My friend and I decided to go hiking in an environment we rarely got a chance to experience during our time in California. Joshua Tree is unique because it hosts two different types of desert ecosystems, the Mojave and the Colorado. This creates a beautiful mix of vegetation and wildlife. It took a three hour drive in an unreliable car to get us to the desert location of Joshua Tree, but we knew it was an adventure worth the trip. Driving inland from Los Angeles was an interesting experience. As the palm trees faded away, windmills began to take their place. Soon, we were surrounded by hundreds of them towering over us. It was an extremely windy day so they were ferociously spinning. I felt like I was in a Don Quixote story. For a long stretch of time, those windmills were the only things that related us back to civilization. Everything else that surrounded us was desolate. This felt a bit eerie, but soon we found ourselves driving in between hills that eventually opened up to a small desert town. Continue reading “Avoiding A Rainstorm While Hiking Joshua Tree”
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