We thought there would be a mad rush and lines of people trying to get out of the park early this morning so we thought we would wait until after lunch to depart. But we were wrong. Most everyone left around 9 and then it was very quiet. We were ready to go, and got tired of waiting so we left about 10:30. It is a relatively short drive to the border (62 miles) and they didn't hassle us or board the coach at the crossing so we made it back into the USA easily and early.
Our trip to Palm Springs was either going to be a long day and arrive very late or we could stop someplace en-route for the night. We picked up the Jeep in Gila Bend, transferred all our stuff back into the Jeep and took off. Just outside of Gila Bend we saw a sign about Painted Rock Petroglyph Historic Site and it showed that it had camping. We could find nothing about this campground in any of our camp books so we took a chance and drove the 11 miles to this place. And we are glad we did! It is on BLM land so we were dry camping (no water, electric,etc) and there were very few people so we had LOTS of space. The glyphs were neat, the desert was . . . desert, the sunset was magnificent and the stars were beautiful.
We drove into Palm Springs on Tues. afternoon, cleaned the coach, went to the grocery store, ate a super dinner that John grilled and met up with our friends to round out a very nice day.
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