A very good travelog @donkeypong! thanks for sharing with us all this beauty and fun story.

I still remember as if it were yesterday the moment I arrived in the Palm Springs & Joshua Tree area. It is still tattooed in my soul and transformed me forever. As you say living in the desert can be transformative, in deed! you photography brought back so many magnificent memories, it is almost convincing me to write a post abut Joshua Tree itself... When the time is ripe, I guess. I still have to finish my travelog about the very best hikes I have ever done in the Canadian Rockies. ;)

Again, thanks a bunch for bringing back to me some very clear images of "The Monument". Keep on taking good care and smiling, thrive on and namaste :)