Gallery (45 images): 2024 Southwest - Day 9 - Joshua Tree
While in Death Valley, we were surprised to hear that Emily's aunt and uncle, who live just south of Los Angeles, insisted we come for a visit while in southern California. So, rather than heading over to Joshua Tree National Park immediately, we cancelled one night of stay at the campground there and made the detour to drive to the coast again and stayed overnight with them. They generously made us feel right at home, gave us food to take, let us do laundry... and showering after hiking around in Death Valley was most certainly welcome as well!
The next day, after taking a few photos of their wonderful cactus garden, we drove off to Joshua Tree National Park to camp at the aptly named Jumbo Rocks Campground. We hiked around for a few hours that evening and took photos, but since we had pre-booked all of our campsites for the trip already, we couldn't linger at all. The following day was a five hour drive to our next campground east of Phoenix, Arizona, and I wanted to leave some time for the potential to sightsee along the way too.
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