Anza Borrego SP, Pegleg

Tuesday: (02/14) Happy Valentine's day to everyone! We got up early to drive down to Pegleg while the wind was gone. It seems to be gusting pretty much most of the day except early morning. We were settled in at Pegleg, about 7 miles East of Borrego Spring, by a little after 8am. We're now down at 634 elevation. Last night we had a good rain storm at Blair Valley. The mountains got some snow. In fact, on the drive down to Borrego Springs we were passed by a ranger that had a 3-4 inch coat of snow all over the top of his vehicle. I fixed toasted English muffins with PBJ for breakfast. We relaxed at home as the wind started blowing pretty well shortly after we arrived. About 1130 we ventured downtown for a look around, and lunch. We stopped in at Carmelita's at The Mall. Lou and I shared a combination plate of a taco, a chili relleno, and a tamale.


We took a drive around the area and stopped to look at a few of the metal sculptures placed all over the valley floor. There is a private estate covering much of the valley floor called Galleta Meadows It is mostly just natural desert landscape but there are creatures lurking about. Dinosaurs, elephants, wild jeeps, coyboys, sea serpents, etc, all sculpted in steel by Ricardo Breceda, a Perris sculpture. Above are photos of a couple of the sculptures. Very detailed sculptures.


I'm not sure all the sculptures are really necessary in the desert. The metal sculpture on the left will never blossom like the one on the right. The estate is open to public use to look at the sculptures, camp up to 3 days, hike, etc. Leftover chicken pasta soup for dinner.
(GPS:33.29478,-116.2977)

Wednesday: (02/15) For breakfast, I made biscuits and gravy. Actually, the biscuits are left over from a couple of days ago and Lou tutored me on making the gravy. Her secret is diced onions in the gravy, lots of them.


We drove out DiGeorgio Road to the Lower Willows. We had to forward the stream three times and crawl over some rocks to get to a point above Lower Willows.


We came to a point where the "road" climbed a pretty good hill over 8-12 inch rocks as the pavement. That was a bit to treacherous for our poor little city Jeep, even with it's skid plates. I hiked up the hill about a half mile to see what was on the other side. There was just more of the same.


We returned to town and stopped at the store for more drinking water and then visited the Visitor center. When we left the Visitor Center, there it was raining and there was a double rainbow across the valley.

We returned to the RV for a late lunch. Lou made grilled horseradish cheese sandwiches. I had the last of the leftover chicken pasta soup and Lou had the leftover cranberry sunflower seed rice. We hung around home since it was raining. the air smells really nice after the rain.

Thursday: (02/16) We had oatmeal for breakfast. I noticed a new feeling on one of my teeth this morning. I had broken off the side of another tooth. So, we headed off toward Los Algodones. Fortunately, mornings are the least windy time so our desert crossing was easier.