![]() And after a few minutes my car disappeared behind me so it was really a matter of faith to continue. It wasn’t a long walk or anything like that, maybe 20 minutes or so, but there was no indication that I was walking anywhere but nowhere. When I hit the right coordinates, I locked up my car on the side of the road, pointed my phone compass in the right direction and hiked my way into what appeared to be an endless desert. It was utterly deserted, no cars or any signs of civilization beyond the road I was on. I soon found myself in the famous Death Valley (although not technically in the national park) close to sunset. ![]() So after asking around for clues and loading up the coordinates into my phone’s compass I drove carefully up 395 north and then turned off onto 190 east. Pretty crazy that you can see the San Andreas Fault in person. This folks, was a challenge, and if you’ve read my post about finding the “taking the hobbits to Isengard” location, you know that when it comes to challenges on adventure trips – it can become something of an obsession for me. AND that I’d be driving within just 20 minutes of the point on the road that’s closest to where it is. And that there was apparently some kind of shrine there that was not marked on any map but the coordinates WERE publicly available online. Skull Rock at Joshua Tree National Park, also home to a Moblin pack in Zelda: Breath of the Wild.īut imagine my surprise when I found out the famous Joshua Tree from the album cover was not ACTUALLY in Joshua Tree National Park, but ACTUALLY in Death Valley. The rock formations and views of the San Andreas fault weave their own kind of magic. The park itself is really cool, and not just for the Joshua trees. ![]() Joshua trees come in seemingly infinite shapes and sizes. ![]() So when I saw I was passing near Joshua Tree National Park, like anyone who was even remotely sentient in the 80’s and 90’s, I immediately thought of the album. And what teenager didn’t have With Or Without You or I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For on repeat at some point after being dumped by their girl/boyfriend. I’ve never been a huge U2 fan… I mean sure, Where The Streets Have No Name and Sunday Bloody Sunday were big when I was growing up and all that Mission: Impossible stuff was cool. ![]()
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