San Bernadino State Forest
Mojave Desert: San Diego to Joshua Tree and Twentynine Palms, California, US - 5th March 2006
On the first weekend of a two-week working trip to San Diego, Nosher takes the rental MX5 Miata for a 500-mile thrash up to the southern edge of the Mojave Desert, to the burgs of Joshua Tree, Yucca Creek and Twentynine Palms, which is all a great excuse for more vanishing-point roads, cacti, derelict buildings and desert. Driving around the deserts of the south-west is always enjoyable - even though this particular route has more traffic than that via the Anza Borrego Badlands to the Salton Sea, there are still times when it's possible to come across places that have no real reason to exist.
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North Fork, on San Jacinto River
A view from up in the mountains
The road to somewhere
The frisky MX5 rental car
A view of desert scrub
A motorbike roars around
Prickly Pear cactus
A turnout, aka lay-by
An assortment of desert plants
Big rocks
More desert cacti
A vista from a popular viewpoint
Palm Springs is down below
A thousand wind turbines
A desert road
Wind turbines in the white sands
A curious collapsed shed
A very literal barber's shop in Yucca Valley
The Church of Christ in Yucca Valley
Two impressive cacti
The road to Twentynine Palms
A Best Western hotel in Twentynine Palms
Church of the Blessed Sacrament, near Joshua Tree
The MX-5 outside the Joshua Tree mission
A derelict shop at Yucca Creek
A house for rent, and some cheap footwear
A random fire hydrant
A crumbling shop at Yucca Creek
Twentynine Palms has a tyre shop called 29 Tires
Derelict house, Yucca Creek
A dark missive is scrawled on the wall
Broken glass on the ground
Back steps on a derelict house
Dereliction
Inside the derelict building
What looks like a home-made control tower
The home-made airport
A yellow fire hydrant
The famous trees of Joshua Tree
A vanishing-point road
A tree, with its own postboxes
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San Bernadino State Forest
San Bernadino State Forest
North Fork, on San Jacinto River
A view from up in the mountains
The road to somewhere
The frisky MX5 rental car
A view of desert scrub
A motorbike roars around
Prickly Pear cactus
A turnout, aka lay-by
An assortment of desert plants
Big rocks
More desert cacti
A vista from a popular viewpoint
Palm Springs is down below
A thousand wind turbines
A desert road
Wind turbines in the white sands
A curious collapsed shed
A very literal barber's shop in Yucca Valley
The Church of Christ in Yucca Valley
Two impressive cacti
The road to Twentynine Palms
A Best Western hotel in Twentynine Palms
Church of the Blessed Sacrament, near Joshua Tree
The MX-5 outside the Joshua Tree mission
A derelict shop at Yucca Creek
A house for rent, and some cheap footwear
A random fire hydrant
A crumbling shop at Yucca Creek
Twentynine Palms has a tyre shop called 29 Tires
Derelict house, Yucca Creek
A dark missive is scrawled on the wall
Broken glass on the ground
Back steps on a derelict house
Dereliction
Inside the derelict building
What looks like a home-made control tower
The home-made airport
A yellow fire hydrant
The famous trees of Joshua Tree
A vanishing-point road
A tree, with its own postboxes