Sightseeing day. We drove back west on I-10 to a Pilot/Flying J travel center to get diesel which Jed insisted would be a good idea. Jed was wrong, of course, because virtually everywhere we looked after buying fuel had lower prices. I don’t think I will be hitting any more Flying J stations unless there is no option. From I-10 we turned N on Hwy 62 headed for Twenty-nine Palms which is the north entrance for Joshua Tree. Since we have a National Access Pass that we bought in Gold Beach back in July of ’14, the entrance fee was $0.

The scenery in the park is pretty spectacular. Joshua trees on the high-altitude Mojave side of the park and Yuccas and Chollas cactus on the Colorado Desert (south) side of the park. Although the temperature was down around freezing in the daytime, all campgrounds were full. The mountain vistas are magnificent. Peg drove us on down the park road back to I-10 where we went west back to the TT campground.

We did go out for Ny-Quil because Jed’s nose was running like a faucet and his lungs were filled with glop. We also hit a Carl’s Jr. to get ice cream for Peg and chicken gobs for Jed. The ice cream was fair but the chicken gobs were tasty when dredged through barbecue sauce. Prior to dark, Jed went out and performed one of his favorite activities – dumping the black and gray tanks. He returned unsplattered.