Joshua Tree National Park

After breakfast, we found the grave of Hi Jolly, who was the Syrian in charge of the camels, mentioned in yesterday's blog. His favorite camel's ashes are in the tube on the front of the pyramid.

They biked 22 miles, with Kathleen having her 5th flat tire, into Blythe, California. To celebrate being in our LAST STATE!!!!! and having nice weather, they put the bikes on the Van, and we drove west to Joshua Tree National Park, kind of where the I-10 symbol is on the map above. It was interesting to see the Sonoran Desert terrain & lots of Cholla Cacti and Joshua Trees.

We spent the night in the small town of Joshua Tree & will get up very early in the am to drive back to Blythe, to get back on the bike route, which heads down toward the Chocolate Mountains and some sand dunes.