Can't you almost just smell it?

Lavender.

The Rocks. It's all about the Rocks.

And the Sky. The Sky was pretty amazing, too. Joshua Tree cont...




The Big Dude and the Eldest Dude climbed this incredibly steep rock - quite the accomplishment for the Eldest!




Hmmm, I bet the view from up on top would have made a nice picture. But climbing's not my thing. I don't do heights. I take pictures from the ground floor. ;-)


Here's the view from back in the truck where we all waited while the BD & the ED made the very long descent.


So, the campsites were full, but we played in the park til we ran out of light. Then we drove out by moonlight and headed into Palm Springs for the night.

And I'm happy to report that I picked up my mac late this afternoon. Woohoo! I can stop twitching now. And get back to those photos from last week...

No Room at the Inn...

About this time last week, this is what we encountered at Joshua Tree. See those sad, sad countenances?








Ok, so it's not totally true that there was no room at the Inn, because the Holiday Inn in Indian Wells did indeed have a room for us ... and breakfast in the morning which included yummy cinnamon rolls. The Big Dude quipped that food always tastes better on a camping trip. :-) Before we headed out of the park and into Palm Springs, we did some more climbing and I took some neat moon/mountain pictures; but those photos are all stuck in my mac which is stuck in the shop which still hasn't begun the work to fix it. argh. But I'm not bitter or anything. pffft.

Park continued.