I did not do a trip report. We flew to phoenix, rented a car and stopped for supplies. It was then a 4 hour drive to the Grand Canyon. With the time change, it was a long day and we were all tired. We stayed in park for 2 nights and didn’t even move the car once we got there: the first day we watched sunrise (time change) and then rode the bus to hermits rest stopping at all the overlooks in the morning. In the afternoon we went to Mather point and the geology museum and walked the trail of time back to where we were staying. The next morning we hiked 1 mile down the south kabib trail to skeleton point and back up. Then we packed up and left for Joshua tree.
The day driving from the Grand Canyon to Joshua tree was the worst in times of distance- it was about 6- 7 hours of car time, but we took the side leg off to rt 66 to see peach springs which is supposed to be what cars was based on (don’t bother, just stop briefly at the seligman exit; they have photo ops at a few stores and you can get right on the interstate). It’s a really really remote drive once you get off the interstate- about 100 miles on small roads through the Mojave desert and it totally freaked me out. I was convinced if the car broke down we would all die. I’m an east coaster girl, I’m not used to deserts.
We stayed in twenty nine palms. Joshua tree was basically a half day thing for us and then we swam at the hotel pool and ate at a really good restaurant called kitchen in the desert.
It’s about 2.5 hours from Joshua tree to
Disneyland. We stopped in Palm Springs and rode the ariel tramway and got lunch, which was ice cream because it was 108 the day we were there. We briefly drove around, but just wanted to get to Disneyland.
We did 3 days at Disneyland which was awesome:
It was a good trip and I feel like the pool in Joshua tree and the driving was concentrated to just a few days, but it was like 800 miles of driving.