Traveling, Camping and Hiking My Way Westward #55 of my 2023 52 Hike Challenge Trail/Park: Mastodon Peak Trail and Cottonwood Spring Trail, Joshua Tree National Park There is an interesting thing I find about spending time outdoors regularly. I am not a morning person except when I'm spending outside. In the times when I'm camping … Continue reading Go West: Desert Beauty & City Lights
The landscape heading east from Los Angeles transitions from sprawling development surrounded by mountains to acres of windmills before rising into the high desert on Highway 62. Everywhere yucca and Joshua Tree dot the vast swaths of desert. Despite the starkness I found myself again marveling at the diversity of the U.S. as one travels on land. Sameness yet underlying subtle differences everywhere.
Traveling, Camping and Hiking My Way Westward Trails/Parks: Chumash Museum Trail, Thousand Oaks, CA; Malibu Creek State Park, Calabasas, CA; Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve, Woodland Hills, CA Slow and Steady Settled in with family the days stretched ahead of me. Days of rest, days of learning, days to enjoy the beauty of … Continue reading Go West: California Highlights
I continued to take in the shifting landscape, now filled with mountain peaks in the distance and ranches along the highway.
