Tripping the Edge of Chaos...: Vacation Days 8, 9, 10…

What a life!

Day 8, honestly, had a bit of hangover and permagrin from day 7. My heart overflowed into this day. Day 8 was started by visiting and looking at stuff around Joshua Tree. We went to a sculpture garden that had all sorts of interesting pieces

Desert Air BnB?

That’s a tad large for my desk, but I LOVE these things:

Then we went and learned about some cool stuff I had previously not known about that had to do with strange religious sects and languages.

And this is the cabin that had the writing all over the walls. Bizarre:

Then we went into town. I think this is the day we went to a little outdoor market where I found some of the most amazing skin care products. This is perhaps more extreme desert than where I live, so the products HAVE to be good, right?!? They have, in fact, proven to be. Of course, I didn’t take any pictures of all that, but we did see this cute little quirky crochet museum:

We went and saw this giant rock that actually, at some point, had a house built under it. I was sad to see all the defacement and tagging on such beautiful natural things.

We went to the store and decided to have sort of a down day. Which lasted exactly as long as it took me to lose my phone! STRESS. PANIC. I was thinking OMG, it’s GONE!! Got a tad snippy with my companion. Went back to store. Luckily, someone had turned it in and me and my little giraffe were reunited. This lovely and snappy dressing young man was the person who handed it back to me:

Later on day 8, after the great phone fiasco, we had the most amazing family as neighbors. They had this awesome dog that was kind of hard to get a picture of because he had a lot of energy. However, he was fluffy and curious and awesome:

Day 9 dawned WINDY. It was time to leave our sanctuary at Joshua Tree RV Park and begin to make the trek headed back North.

Should have known that windy in Joshua Tree would not bode well for heading North. Somewhere in the great expanse of heading North, we were unceremoniously pulled off the Freeway. The closed the entire road to all traffic because of high winds. We straight saw a giant billboard thing that had been blown over and took out part of a building! I was driving, so couldn’t take a picture, but here’s one of us trapped in L’s trailer, with a bunch of truckers at a truck stop in the middle of nowhere:

My friend L, she truly knows no strangers. And she smokes. I do not smoke. So, before I knew it, she was introducing me to these two cool looking Mexican dudes. They were best friends on a fishing trip, also trapped. They, however, were much more familiar with the area than us, and were hip to a camp ground that was right off the highway, but they said very much pretty and a good spot. Sounded good to us, so we formed a caravan when the highway was open again and proceeded to go on a different kind of adventure. This was taken the morning of day 10, as we didn’t arrive until later in the evening, but here are our saviours!

They were very sweet. They wanted to feed us! They asked if they could BBQ for us, they fed us ceviche and chips. It was pretty awesome, actually. It’s amazing, one can find friends anywhere! They took off first thing in the morning, and we decided to hang here for another day. I would TOTALLY go to this camp ground again!

This was a trip, also, of amazing canines! One of the guys had one, her name is Penny:

The guys headed on their future journey pretty early in the AM. Brains are suck funny things. It’s only been a few months since this adventure happened, but it seems to me like the pictures now, are out of sequence. Hah. At some point, we went in to a town where there was a Western Movie Museum that was sadly closed due to Covid, but always exciting to think of coming back at a different time: