Day 19 Monday January 27

Atlatl use by non natural

   

PS Public

     After classic breakfast in the BLM into Josh Tree City where S took a five dollar shower across the street from the Joshua Tree NP visitors center while I read about the naturals use of the atlatl to hunt in the cooler wetter environment around here 12,000 years ago. From there it was all downhill back to Palm Springs Public Library prior to meeting Mike at 1:30 at his digs on East Amado Drive.
     Arrived M's, got through the gate, parked van with B left in and to her own devices while we chatted and swam. M off to square dance and we to see Parasite, the movie, down the street via bikes.

Day 18 Sunday January 26

shadow with pf flyer

Willow Hole 1

Willow Hole 2

Willow Hole 3

Willow Hole 4

Willow Hole 5

the neighbors

Creosote

     Out to the trail to Willow Hole. Great walk among  magnificent stones. Old snow here and there. Got kind of burnt though. S liked the snowball fighting, I thought is was somewhat dangerous due to the coarse grainy icyness of the material. Out to Key View for the view of the five cities of the desert below. Backed by the snowy San Jacinto. Lunch at the Blacktop or the Three Natural Sisters cafe which had a travel themed menu - dinners were called Destinations. The food was good and covered supper later. 

Every one in Joshua Tree City is either 30 or 60. 

     The library was closed and offered no leaked wifi like S said it would in all likelihood. Return to camp 100 feet from last night’s bivouac in time for sunset that was not like last night because of no clouds and the wind came up right as the sun went down. It is buffeting the van now hours into the dark, but there is a sickle moon and the heater. Going out into the howling creosote dark can be a little otherworldly. Listening to someone reading John Grisham on the phone. Soon we will be into the Trader Joe's Honey Grahams after that who knows, maybe a toddy.

Yep, toddies.

Day 17 Saturday January 25

     

Sky above BLM Dispersed Camp - Joshua Tree area

Same as above but with creosote

Boondocked

Boondocked 2

     After a coffee, toast, peanut butter, cream cheese and three kinds of jam, a dog walk and home tour up at the rose garden by the mission. Delineations and ruminations about our ancestors between K and I as we strolled along with the dogs through the magnificent ancestral homes of some one’s, but not ours.  Good bye to K and G and their luxurious hostpitality at Cota and Chiquita.  Beetled down the freeways skirting LA’s eastern fringe to Beaumont, Joshua Tree City and finally, due to the fact that in all of Joshua Tree NP there was no camp site that nite, to the edge of a dry lake on BLM land where in the vast expanse some campers of various types were strewn. Deep green creosote bush and little golden tuffs of grass was all there was. Sunset was pretty good. It started to get cold fast. We are favored with many new food items from Trader Joes and Albertsons such as veggie burger and chopped salad. And of course there is the heater.