{"id":1028,"date":"2007-12-16T21:22:09","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T03:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2007-12-16T21:22:09","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T03:22:09","slug":"to-do-in-anza-borrego-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/?p=1028","title":{"rendered":"To-do in Anza-Borrego this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

And then, absolutely nothing happened.<\/p>\n

Early this morning, Tommy and Kathy packed it up for points north. \u00a0 They have an engagement in the area of Long Beach. \u00a0 Eleanor woke up with some coughing leftover from the cold, and the sky had a thin overcast which took away the warm sun, so it felt like a winter day for the first time.<\/p>\n

This time of year there are few scheduled events in the park. \u00a0 There was one ranger talk scheduled for 2:00 pm, but nobody showed up except me (not even the ranger!). \u00a0 We went for a bike ride around the campground, took a couple of walks, and practiced ukulele all afternoon. \u00a0 Eleanor stayed in and worked on craft projects. \u00a0 In short, a quiet day.<\/p>\n

That’s probably good. \u00a0 On Tuesday we are expecting a few Airstream folks to join us and things will probably get a lot busier. \u00a0 For them, I will provide a few tips for camping this week in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.<\/p>\n

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  1. Eat Mexican food downtown. \u00a0 There are a couple of restaurants but we prefer the one right on main street. \u00a0 It’s inexpensive, good, and casual.<\/li>\n
  2. Plan on at least one day on the backroads and offroad, if you can. \u00a0 That’s where the park gets really interesting. \u00a0 Even with a small car you can explore some of the “off-road” spots. Ask a ranger for tips and buy the $1 map in the Visitor Center.<\/li>\n
  3. Catch some history. \u00a0 I know history is not everyone’s area of interest, but this place has geologic history (volcanoes, inland seas, etc), evolutionary history (mammoths and dinosaurs), and human history (Juan de Anza, Marshal South, Peg Leg Smith). \u00a0 It’s all interesting. \u00a0 I can specifically recommend the film on Marshal South in the Visitor Center. His “experiment” in living off the land with his family in Anza-Borrego back in the \u00a0 1930s is fascinating story which deserves to be better known.<\/li>\n
  4. Take an early hike. \u00a0 Early in the morning is when you’re likely to see the bighorn sheep in Palm Canyon, and by mid-day you can stop for lunch at a palm tree oasis. There are also petroglyphs to be found in a few places.<\/li>\n
  5. Bring something to do in the long dark evenings. \u00a0 A book, a movie, a game, a telescope, a musical instrument, or a pile of firewood. \u00a0 While the stars are beautiful here, it’s also cold enough that you won’t be outside after dark without a hat and a warm jacket, or a good warm camp fire.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    And then, absolutely nothing happened. Early this morning, Tommy and Kathy packed it up for points north. \u00a0 They have an engagement in the area of Long Beach. \u00a0 Eleanor woke up with some coughing leftover from the cold, and the sky had a thin overcast which took away the warm sun, so it felt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}