Joshua Tree National Park.

Thursday Feb 4th  We pack up a lunch, some drinks, camera and sunscreen then headed out to go through Joshua Tree National Park.  Neither of us had been there, yet we both grew up in southern California. We fueled up at Chiriaco Summit and took the next exit to enter the park from the south, and leisurely drove across the park taking in the sights, stopping and taking pictures along the way.

I didn't realize how large the park was. Only 120 miles from the second largest city in the United States, Joshua tree national Park is 1,234 square miles of untouched desert wilderness -- over three times the size of the Salton Sea.

Took several short hikes (walks) and left the park around 5:30 at the town of Jushua Tree on the North west side of park. Tried to find the Mexican restaurant our friends from Olympia had told us about  but couldn't find it. Even texted a request to our friends Ron & Beth Storye but couldn't confirm a name or location.

No, this wasn't Denny's.  This was lunch.

Ended up at a Denny's for dinner around 6:30pm in Yucca Valley. 😮 Hey, we were hungry! The food was fine.  Then made the long trek back to our motorhome in Tamarisk Resort at Desert Center.

Joshua Tree Nat'l Park, Feb 2016