We have went out with friends from New Mexico and found some geocache's and took in the scenic drive thru Joshua Tree National Forest. We choose to travel a road that said you should have a 4 wheel drive vehicle, by the time we saw several more warnings and a picture of a jeep on a sandy flat road.
Well so much for that, after a half hour into our drive we are not slowed down because the road is no longer as smooth, then we round a corner between to ridges with a wash out. We spent about the next hour walking in front of the car tossing rocks in ruts to insure that we didn't bottom out or get hung up.
Mind you this route was shorter in miles, however the time it took to get over the route was maybe double what it would have took if we ad returned the other route.
I think I can say it was still a very enjoyable afternoon with friends. I also think everyone was glad to see a real paved road again.
we also took the picture below of this read art at the entry of Warm Sands, an area where there are several small quaint hotels, one which use to belong to Howard Hughes where he would meet his mistresses.
We also visited a place called 1000 Palms, pretty interesting I guess the palms are very old and cropped up from an aquifer.
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