Joshua Tree

Yesterday we drove through the Palm Springs windmills!
Have you seen Alphadog? I watched it at Leon's. The windmills
are in that film, and show the scale of them. There are literally
thousands. We parked up in a sand pit and walked across desert
to get a closer look. It was windy!

Someone did good with that location.

A helicoptor flew over us, and I discovered the incident in the
Hollywood Hills has given me a phobia of them!

At sunset last night, 200 miles into our trip, we hit Joshua Tree
National Park. We headed to one of the campsites and found a
spot big enough to squeeze our 30 footer. We did good!

When I say we, I mean I.

We had a picnic bench and everything! Will made a campfire
like a real man and we sat round it drinking beer and eating
chips and home-made guacamole. The stars came out and there
were zillions, and we were nestled inbetween the biggest
boulders ever. Everything looked surreal.

It was a super nice night!

Today we woke up to the sunniest, quietest, most pretty day
ever. We went for a walk and climbed some rocks. There were
tonnes of chipmunks and other fluffy creatures Will reckoned
were 'ground squirrels'.

What rubbish. We didn't see any coyotes, although Will heard
them howl or something while he smoked a dirty midnight
cigarette. Again, what rubbish!

In the afternoon we drove deeper into Joshua Tree to Keys View,
where you can see all the way to Mexico! Then we began to make
our way out, via a few stops such as skull rock and Cottonwood
Spring. Oh yeah, it's called Joshua Tree because it's full of Joshua
Trees. They're cool.

We escaped without paying, somehow. Thirty bucks saved.

We're spending the night in a truck stop just to the west of
Phoenix, Arizona. No showers for us! On the way here we got
pulled by the cops. We had a brake light out, but he was obviously
suspicious of us because he split Will and I up. He made me stand
by his car while Will was told to stand way behind the RV by a road
sign. He questioned us separately about how we knew each other,
who were were and whether we had any drugs on us.

Then he searched our RV, which was slightly disconcerting.
Especially when I saw him go into my underwear drawer through
the rear window!

Anyway, we escaped with a verbal warning and carried on our way.

It turns out I got sunburnt today. The desert is a tricky trickster!