title	Mojave Desert: San Diego to Joshua Tree and Twentynine Palms, California, US - 5th March 2006
intro	On the first weekend of a two-week working trip to San Diego, Nosher takes the rental MX5 Miata for a 500-mile thrash up to the southern edge of the Mojave Desert, to the burgs of Joshua Tree, Yucca Creek and Twentynine Palms, which is all a great excuse for more vanishing-point roads, cacti, derelict buildings and desert. Driving around the deserts of the south-west is always enjoyable - even though this particular route has more traffic than that via the Anza Borrego Badlands to the Salton Sea, there are still times when it's possible to come across places that have no real reason to exist.
imgp7880	San Bernadino State Forest
imgp7882	North Fork, on San Jacinto River
imgp7883	A view from up in the mountains
imgp7887	The road to somewhere
imgp7893	The frisky MX5 rental car
imgp7896	A view of desert scrub
imgp7897	A motorbike roars around
imgp7899	Prickly Pear cactus
imgp7906	A turnout, aka lay-by
imgp7908	An assortment of desert plants
imgp7911	Big rocks
imgp7912	More desert cacti
imgp7913	A vista from a popular viewpoint
imgp7921	Palm Springs is down below
imgp7925	A thousand wind turbines
imgp7931	A desert road
imgp7936	Wind turbines in the white sands
imgp7938	A curious collapsed shed
imgp7943	A very literal barber's shop in Yucca Valley
imgp7944	The Church of Christ in Yucca Valley
imgp7945	Two impressive cacti
imgp7946	The road to Twentynine Palms
imgp7949	A Best Western hotel in Twentynine Palms
imgp7954	Church of the Blessed Sacrament, near Joshua Tree
imgp7956	The MX-5 outside the Joshua Tree mission
imgp7957	A derelict shop at Yucca Creek
imgp7958	A house for rent, and some cheap footwear
imgp7959	A random fire hydrant
imgp7960	A crumbling shop at Yucca Creek
imgp7964	Twentynine Palms has a tyre shop called 29 Tires
imgp7966	Derelict house, Yucca Creek
imgp7969	A dark missive is scrawled on the wall
imgp7970	Broken glass on the ground
imgp7971	Back steps on a derelict house
imgp7973	Dereliction
imgp7974	Inside the derelict building
imgp7976	What looks like a home-made control tower
imgp7982	The home-made airport
imgp7985	A yellow fire hydrant
imgp7990	The famous trees of Joshua Tree
imgp7993	A vanishing-point road
imgp7997	A tree, with its own postboxes