Joshua Tree & Pinnacles National Park East
Continuing on our Christmas road trip (see part 1 ), Felix and I drove from Tucson, AZ towards Joshua Tree National Park in southern California. Since we had to spend most of the day driving (it was a 5 hour drive), and Felix was still sore from our 8-mile hike the previous day, we decided to save the park for the following day and just check out some nearby attractions. I really wanted to go to this place called Pioneer Town because it was featured on the show Selling Sunset, which is a reality show about LA realtors. On the show, one of the realtors said she owned Pioneer Town. We looked this up and it turned out to be false: she owns a minority interest in an entity that owns 6 out of 35 parcels in the town's Mane Street (they spell it "Mane" not "Main") area, and she later apologized for her statement that she owns the town, saying she just gets so excited talking about Pioneer Town. Pioneer Town's Mane Street is a group of buildings that look like an o...