Two deserts and a toxic sea.

If you are interested in deserts, cacti, toxic oceans and joshua trees, you will find a photoset with the same title as this blogpost on my Flickr account. I have managed to winnow 300+ photos into 50 fairly decent ones for browsing. Please comment on the ones you like – my ego appreciates the feedback.

Although it was brief, my trip to southern California was excellent and packed with lots of hiking, sunshine and even some gin drinking. For the first two and a half days, my friend Aaron and I tripped around Anza Borrego which is a stunning, sea-level desert north of San Diego… and then I met up with some other folks and traveled east to the very toxic Salton Sea for some picture taking and then north to spend a night and a day in Joshua Tree (high desert – a very different ecosystem). Tuesday was spent bumming around with friends in LA before heading out – and here I am at home again! Sunburnt and cactus-scratched has never felt so good.

My first vacation in a year and a half – and a reminder that I should take some more of that time in the holiday-bank 🙂