Thursday, February 19, 2015

Today I went to Joshua Tree National Park named after the Joshua tree. The Joshua tree looks like it has multiple, crooked arms with pointy fingers. According to legend, early Mormon travelers (who were religious people) traveled west and saw a grove of young two-armed plants. They named them “Joshua” trees after biblical Joshua reaching toward heaven.

The terrain we drove through was rough and dry, and in places rocky, sometimes with huge rocks.   Apparently, alpacas do well in this kind of environment.  When we arrived at the overlook, I could see the San Andreas fault in the distance. This is a place where the earth moves, sometimes causing earth quakes. I was glad I took my trekking poles!

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