Between Grand Canyon and LA there is a huuuge amount of “nothing”. Desert and barrens for hundrets of miles. Some dead ghost towns (supposed NOT to be ghost towns) on the way, where we planned to buy some gas… but other than closed, abandonned or broken gas stations we found no gas to buy. Driving through a dessert with at least 105ºF (41ºC), far away from civilisation (no mobile phone network) and not knowing how far you get with your remaining gas is… NOT GOOD! Luckily we arrived at Yoshua Tree National Park just in time, driving already 25 miles on reserve tank. Halleluja, there was was the first open and working gas station for the last 200 miles. (Once again: we began to look for a gas station over 200 miles before we went nearly empty).
Joshua Tree (a.k.a. “Wonderland of Rocks”) was a great National Park and perhaps the best campground we visited. And it would have been even better, if were rock climber. If you love rock-climbing this is the place to be :-) Sadly we neither had the skill nor the equipment to try this part. Nevertheless Zion had some unique rock formations and beautifull (desert-)vegetation.
Ingo in the “Wonderland of Rocks”
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