This winter and spring in California has been an exceptionally rainy and snowy one. One of the results of this are the "super" blooms of desert flowers. So here we are in the Southern California desert, and we haven't gone to see the Anza-Borrego super bloom or the poppy super bloom at Lake Arrowhead...but to be perfectly honest, the reported crowds are enough to deter me, at least. However, Tom's making the effort to cheer me up. He finds the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve in Lancaster that's on our way back north. Maybe it's not so impacted by tourist...
We could see the bloom about 7 miles away...
we were excited and thought we had outsmarted the crowds until the traffic slowed to a crawl about 5 miles away! The road into the reserve was soooo narrow. We're in the Beast, and cars are parked on both sides of the road making the road barely passable for us. We're really hoping the Reserve has bus/RV parking, so we can find somewhere to park or turn around if we need to. As we get there, we see the traffic control people are flagging cars away from the entrance..but hallelujah, they have bus/RV parking and flag us on into the parking lot! (This also has it's challenges as people have parked in a way that makes it difficult for the RV to make the turn. Thank goodness Tom is such a pro!)
The visit was well worth it, but would we do it again? Not with these crowds, and definitely, not in an RV.
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