Joshua Tree, a Terminator Motel, and Gwen Stefani at the Sphere

This is my favourite part of being nomadic....

Photo by Cedric Letsch on Unsplash

My fave part of being nomadic is the planning.

Yesterday my husband & I started to plan next week post house sit.

We’re leaving San Diego & heading to Palm Springs for a night (apparently there’s a tramway there we must do according to ChatGPT).

Then we’ll head off to Joshua Tree National Park (super excited) and do:

• Keys View

• Hidden Valley

• Cap Rock

• Skull Rock

• and stay for the sunset & some star gazing.

I’m getting stupidly excited about making some sandwiches and snacks and laying on a blanket and watching the stars!

Then we’ll stay in the town of Joshua Tree and go into the park again the following morning for sunrise to see:

• Barker Dam

• Jumbo Rocks

• Cholla Cactus Garden

No doubt my phone will fill up with photos of rock formations catching the light from every angle! (Plus of course I’ll take some challenge cards with me to do a few promo shots & videos - content ops everywhere!)

Then we’re currently juggling two options:

1. Boulder City - Lake Mead, Hoover Dam & The Valley of Fire (sounds ah-maz-ing!)

2. Vegas - No Doubt live at The Sphere! (Front runner for Rhett who’s had a crush on Gwen Stefani for forever!)

We’re actually staying in Vegas for 2 weeks for his 50th so of course it’s his choice and we can always do Hoover Dam et al another time during our stay, but just the act of chatting about it, searching booking (dot) com for where we’ll stay, and researching the places, brings out the absolute best in me.

I go from cold filled, coughing fits under a blanket, ‘don’t speak to me’ Jo. To rapid speech, we could go here, see this, do that (cough, cough), visit this place, animated Jo! It’s a sight to behold! 😂

Plus we ended up booking what looks like a very basic motel on the side of a road in Joshua Tree which looks like something out of The Terminator.

(Think Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) in the original movie hiding out from Arnie in an old motel, and ‘making’ John Connor who paradoxically is the one who sends Kyle back in time to save Sarah - yep it’s a mind bender! 😂)

Anyway, I said to Rhett - oh I’m so filming that motel when we arrive. That is great content! 😁 (Stay tuned!)

So that’s where we are. I’m hoping to be fighting fit by the time we leave here next week and ready for some nomadding across country, and I can’t wait to share the journey with you.

In the meantime, if you know the area and have any tips, do please let me know in the comments below! For now I’m heading back to my intravenous tea drip.

Chat soon, pics and motel vids to follow! 😎