In an effort to explore new places last weekend, I took a ride up to Joshua Tree National Park. Aside the fact that I twisted my ankle running away from a bee the morning I left, I also got a little lost at one point. Oh it's no big deal, every single direction you look is exactly the same and there is no civilization for miles. 

So needless to say there were no hikes in store for me, let alone walking more than ten feet at a time. So I just figured hey whatever I can ice my ankle on the drive up there and just take pictures from the car once I'm there. Ha ha little did I know that the road that goes through Joshua tree takes you on many unpaved side roads that all look exactly the same. In order to get to anything really cool, you pretty much need to go off the pavement. So in an effort to save my new tires, I stayed mostly to the paved roads. So I was driving along my merry way, and realized wow I have driven about 80 miles just in the park so far, good thing I'm almost done since my gas is getting low. So I decided I would drive down the other direction to exit and to see if I could find anything cool and then wait for sunset there. Well I realized about 20 miles down this winding road that I was going the wrong direction, and if that wasn't enough I was about to enter another unpaved section of road that could have gone on who knows how long. So I turned around and made it out just before my gas light came on, whew. After the fear of being stuck in the desert and lost, I decided not to stay for sunset. Here are a couple pics from that day...