Joshua Tree, Day 2 and 3

The second, and main day of the trip we left the house at 11:30 (and before leaving, had A).

We headed to a trail called Cap Stone. The great part about the trail is that it is 0.3 miles only, which is great for not being entirely sober, but also there are many Joshua trees with many rock formations around as well, but it is relatively flat.

After, we headed to Skill Rock. This trail is definitely more involved than Cap Stone, but still do-able (I believe this one is 1.8 miles). We didn’t finish the trail, it got probably half way through. Still a great hike nonetheless 🙂

We then spent the rest of the day in the house. At night, we used the hot tub, and watched several episodes of Drunk History, as well as read an interesting picture book from Taschen about LA from the 1920’s onward.

On the last day, we left the AirBnB around 11:30am, and made our way back to SF. The one interesting thing along the way was a police stand off that was happening in the highway (basically there were two police cruisers stopping this one car, and one police had their gun out and longed towards this girl with her hands in the air).

After, since we had a full breakfast, we only stopped by Panda Express along the I5 for an early dinner.

Overall, great trip, with lots to reflect on 🙂

Joshua Tree, Day 1

We flew out from SFO to LAX at 8am, and arrived 9:30am. After, we went to Airport Van Rental to pick up the Dodge Caravan (it was the cheapest place to rent this car with unlimited miles, and returning to a different city). (also, note that you should take the Thrifty shuttle to get to AVR, and use Google Maps for the exact location).

After picking up the car, we grabbed lunch at a pho place near by:

http://food.johnmatienzo.com/2019/05/06/pho-hue-oi/

From there, we drove 2 hours to get to our AirBNB near Joshua Tree. But before we reached The AirBNB, we stopped by Vons to grab some supplies (and note to self, they have the good hard liquor at the front of the store!).

We got to the AirBnB at 6:30pm. Since we wanted to squeeze in a hike, we quickly unloaded and headed out.

We went to a trail called Fortynine Palm Oasis, which was only a 3 mile hike. However, because of taking a lot of photos, we didn’t compete the hike since we wanted to get back before it was too dark (sunset was at 7:30pm).

When we came back, it was a night of dinner and drinks.