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Desert Lady Diaries

Nov 26, 2019

Cheryl's first experience with desert was in the early 80’s, driving to Palm Springs for Spring Break with a friend - and her friend’s grandmother drove them around Palm Springs to see the sights.
 
After that, Cheryl started coming out to the desert on her own, not really knowing about Joshua Tree until a former...


Nov 19, 2019

 

 
Kathleen Lowndes is proof that attitude is everything.
 
Kathleen's first experience with desert was on a family move from Upstate NY to Inglewood California via the infamous Route 66 – Kathleen was eight years old. She recently found a black and white photo from 1955 of her family under a Joshua tree in...


Nov 12, 2019

 

Imagine driving into the desert, a place of wide open spaces where you can see for miles, and not being able to breathe. This was Mary Sojourner's first experience with desert, somewhere between Parker, AZ and 29 Palms.
 
Mary had moved west in 1985 from Rochester NY ‘to write and fight for the earth'. It was Edward...


Nov 5, 2019

Dawn Rowe's first experience with desert was driving to Las Vegas for a Marine Corps Ball. Alan, her late husband, needed something for his uniform and decided they would drive the back way to Vegas, passing the Marine Base in 29Palms where he would pick it up at the PX. Driving up the Morongo grade and then down into...