Joshua Tree

We pulled into the campground at Joshua Tree after hours, and the roads in the campground are a little screwy louie.  After winding our way through the campground, we finally found a site we liked.  The campground was built many moons ago, without the super big vehicles that come through these days.  Like ours.  So we needed a pull through site, and fortunately there were several available.                                  

G needs to finish up another Eagle required merit badge in order to make rank, which he would like to do so that when we're in CO at the end of the month, he can get his reviews done.  He and NS are working on cooking, and they have requirements for trail meals and snacks.  We've got only a few days left of camping at parks until we're back in CO, so they're busting.  G and NS both chose to do a trail meal while we were at Joshua Tree, and I chose Barker Dam hike.  Since we were there in the winter, there was actually water in the dam, which I guess is a somewhat rare event.  Maybe uncommon is a better word.  At any rate, we loved the hike.  There were rocks, there was water, and there were Joshua Trees.  Pretty wicked.  Did I mention petroglyphs?  Yeah, they had those, too.        

We loved Jumbo Rocks.  What an amazing playground!  We were able to climb all over the place, so we took different paths, though we always seemed to be very close to each other.  Our Taylor Coach buddies had told us about the campground at Jumbo Rocks, though that was not the one stayed at, but it was amazing.  Truly, if you're looking at Joshua Tree, stay at Jumbo Rocks campground.   We enjoyed the weather there, too.  The kids even got to cook outside (ok, they had to for their merit badge stuff), though they didn't much care for the wind.