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...
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...
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...
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...