Anza-Borrego Redux

Location: Borrego Springs, California

As we weren't too far away, and had had SO much fun on our last visit, we decided to stop at Borrego Springs again. Three years ago we paid our first visit to Anza-Borrego State Park during the Swainson's Hawk migration and the flowering cactii and some wild flowers (see here).

 This time it's all flowers, flowers, and more flowers. We just happened to arrive as the wildflowers were in prime bloomage, but before it had hit the news and social media. What perfect timing – we beat the "flowergeddon" crowds (see here), and were able to spend a lot of time out wandering almost alone in the desert viewing this year's "superbloom". The flowers were amazing.

We also hiked through two slot canyons - "South Palm Wash Slot" and "The Slot" - that were both spectacular but also very different! There was lots of scrambling and squeezing through these very narrow high sided canyons.

To top it all off, we saw our second lenticular cloud ever, and – guess what? Our first was right here almost 3 years ago!

Our next-to-last stop was also one of our favorites, a small primitive campground on the shore of Lake Mohave on the Colorado River.  We spent a few days here hiking up into the beautiful canyon.


We are currently in Redding, California visiting our son, Dan, before starting the trek back east to Virginia in April.