Can you say "Flowers"...
We were really having seconds thoughts about this trip. The weather on the coast was pretty bad  and the news was talking about flash floods. Driving south on 805 we saw a pretty bad accident involving 6 cars. Another accident on the 8 freeway had us asking ourselves if we should really be out driving around.
Lucky for us once we dropped down into Ocotillo the weather was actually nice with minimal wind.
In Ocotillo we met up with Jan and Gina in their cool BJ70 diesel Land Cruiser and took them out to one of our favorite camping spots in the Carrizo Creek area.
Once again our "secret" campsite was available so we parked the Cruisers and hiked further up into the side canyon.

Hilights of the hike were Jan playing with this cool brown tarantula

and Kaiel's rock climbing antics.

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