We have finally made it to California and our first destination is Joshua Tree National Park in Twenty-Nine Palms.
Route 62 was long and lonely with not a single living thing to be seen. No cell service at all but lots of emergency call boxes along the way.
We also noticed as we got closer to Twenty-nine Palms city limits there were multiple abandoned shacks dotting the landscape. Some were falling apart while others still intact and even others with people still living in them. We thought maybe a big storm had come through causing the damage. We later found out that those were the homestead shacks left behind during the gold rush years.
We arrived at our destination around noon and set up in site #115. I had made a reservation, but once again Ron was right – no reservation needed.
We took a drive into town to check out Historic Plaza that has mural and sculptures of the founding couple of Twenty Nine Palms, Frank and Helen Bagley.
Another interesting sculpture, the Chain of Life.
The town looks like it is a decline like many of the small towns we have driven through. It is sad to see so many towns and cities with storefronts boarded and for sale signs on them.
Tomorrow we will tour Joshua Tree National Park. The weather is comfortable but very cloudy with predicted rain on Friday. This area generally gets a total of 4 inches of rain per year and we will be here to enjoy all the rain drops. LOL.
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