Local Deserts - Quartzsite, AZ, Blythe, CA and El Centro, CA

Lunch at Silly Al's Pizza
Quartzsite, Arizona

Home made ice cream always a must

Saw on Facebook that fellow jeeper Dave was also in Quartzsite.  Met up to do Dripping Spring Trail.

Attended the 32nd Annual Blythe Bluegrass Festival with the Rockwood RV Club.

Kenny and Amanda Smith

High Plains Tradition 

El Centro, California

Dinner and dancing

Giving the cooks an applause 

Kenny Hess

Jacumba Border Wall

Headed to the Valley of the Moon

Wild Horses

More Wild Horses

A total of seven

Smuggler's Cave

Montero Wash in Anza Borrego Desert State Park

The San Diego and Arizona Railway.  

Founded by entrepreneur John D Spreckels and dubbed "The Impossible Railroad"

Here we go

Looks like someone jumped the track

We had to hike around this collapsed tunnel

The trestle over Goat Canyon, 600 feet long, stretches 200 feet above the canyon floor.  It was one of the largest curved, wood trestle bridges in the world.

To get here we hiked 4 miles, went through 3 tunnels and crossed 8 trestles

Look Mom no hands

Palms in Carrizo Canyon 

Evidence of the large cans being used in the walls

Old cans

Discussing the line for Diablo Drop Off

Lunch in Sandstone Canyon

Fish Creek Canyon

The rock feature you see, long described as "the anticline" resulting from slow geologic process. It was created in just seconds when a fast moving landslide crashed into the soft sea bottom of the early Gulf of California.