A Desert Beginning
May 14th 2012 Finally, on May 5th, we were ready to depart. We'd said goodbye to our neighbors and friends, who graciously allowed us to pick fruit from their orchard to add to our provisions. We'd said emotional good-byes to our parents and grandfather, knowing we would miss them terribly, but as excited as anything to be leaving at last.
We decided that we would camp the first evening in Joshua Tre
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