My trip to Joshua Tree National Park
Hi, guys!
After a long absence from the web, there it is my new adventure in California! Me (the Bulgarian), Alex (the Italian) and Florentin (the Austrian) managed to prove once again how small the world is and met in Twentynine Palms, South California, a town consisting of two streets of barracks and a big hotel at their intersection. 

So there I am, ready for the hazards of the desert!
 
 
 
 
 

 

 
 
 

To be honest, when I agreed to go on this trip, I did not know what I was in for, just that it will be crazy, knowing what these two guys do when they are together.
<=That is the inhuman time they kicked me out of bed, after having arrived quite late at the hotel the day before (10 hours of drive to reach there)!

The terrain was not always as easy as the background image. 
But I should have known that! :-) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


 
 

And when you walk for hours and there is nothing or nobody but stones around you, the only company that you have is your inevitable shadow. Plato would have been proud of this self-portrait of mine :-) 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

We encountered some other shadows too, and more valuable at that: shadows of time and history, ancient as well as contemporary. Recently a camera crew filming the petroglyphs, fearing that the pictures will not be impressive, reinforced the paint. They managed to make out of a few scratched stones an affecting view by simply changing the symbolic significance: the monument of the ancient genius serves now also as a superb manifestation of  modern idiocy.

 

Please, note the T-shirt script! It is misspelled! Should be written: "Bulgarian Dor-zilla!"

 Unfortunately, that was not the only idiocy of the day! I disturbed the peace of a cactus and it bit me! Since I was upset, Florentin decided to show me that how the world affects you is a matter of spiritual strength. If you do not care about reality, reality will not hurt you - and to make his point he jumped into the pile of cacti! ;-)


 
 

 

 

 
 

This Newtonian experiment made me realise I was experiencing one of those days of revelation..... I saw what creates Primitivism - bare landscape,  nothing to do and too much time on one's hands! 

 
 
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Boy, was I tired at the end of the hike! Both physically and psychologically! 

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But the day was not at its end.... And i had no idea what i still had to endure! The impersonation of the monster of Loch Ness! Florentin, are there any other contagious things you picked up since you are in Scotland?
 

 
 


But everything is well when ends well. And the view on Palm Springs was worth the ordeals of the day. 

That is all from me for the time being. 
Greetings, Dora