adventures

Danielle and I arrived in Anza Borrego in the early afternoon and began our trip officially with a visit to the county dump, which was bordered by sand dunes.


We then went and walked amongst the wildflowers, which were the aim of our trip. There were sadly only three types of wildflowers in the area that we could drive to, but pretty nevertheless.


Rough roads denied us most of our quarry throughout the afternoon, although we kept trying different places. This sandswept road was the route to the primitive campground where we had planned to sleep. Abort, abort!

That evening when we finally found a primitive campground we could get to, it started raining and we were forced to sleep in the car as I do not have a tent.


After our fitfull lightning-filled evening, we awoke invigorated to explore the more southern part of the park. There, we took great glee in tricking fellow travelers to pull over at random places probably not worth visiting (although we were there...). One of these was Bisnaga (baja for Barrel Cactus) Wash.


Barrel cacti are one of my favorite kinds of cacti, and thankfully they were flowering or I would have been pissed, having driven 4 hours to see desert flowers.


Some of the biggest cacti were gnawed on at the base.


Our last stop was Box Canyon, part of the wagon trail west, hewn in part by the Mormon Infantry(!?).