[williswall]

Just put another 3300 miles on my van to go get my daughter from LA so she could spend a month with us before taking her back. On our way we stopped at Great Sand Dunes NP, White Sands NP, Saguaro NP and just a smidge of Joshua Tree. The rest of the report in photos:

Great Sand Dunes National Park:

Beyond2

Critter Steps

Follow my footsteps

Frozen Layer

GSD1

GSD2

GSD3

Layers

Long View

Ridgelines

Ripples

The Expanse

The Face

The Pose on High Dune

White Sands National Park:

Beautiful Skies

Curves

Daughter hiking dunes

Dune layers

Eking out an existence

Lone Hiker

More Curves

Profile

Ridgeline

Ripples 2

Shadows

Solis at White Sands

Trail Marker

Water near the surface

Windcatchers

Saguaro National Park:

Barrell cactus

No landing zone

No Touchee

Reach for the sky

Reflections

Saguaro Pose off

Saguaros and sky

Silhouette

Skyline

Solis and Saguaros

Sun peeking through

Joshua Tree National Park

The place to ourselves

Teddy Bear Cholla

Teddy Bear Cholla closeup

Joshua Solis

Joshua Clump

Incoming storm

Cholla solo shot

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[Malachai Constant]

Nice pix we tried to go to White Sands this spring but it was closed due to the COVID this spring. Seems like a hundred years ago now. Have been to all the rest several times, love the desert. Maybe this year.

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[olderthanIusedtobe]

That's a BIG sandbox!  Beautiful pictures.  Love the wind patterns in the sand.  Nice cactii too.