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Arizona

2018 · United States

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Endless sandy flatland dotted with scrub stretches beneath a cloudless sky.Sun-baked ground with sparse shrubs and pale boulders fronts a rugged brown mountain range.A tall spiny ocotillo tipped with red blooms stands near a curving paved desert road.A cluster of bright red-orange flowers glows on spiny branches against deep blue.A silver sedan sits on the dirt shoulder of a highway through an empty desert plain.A craggy mountain range looms over sparse desert scrub beneath a clear blue sky.Clusters of fuzzy green cholla cacti blanket the desert floor below rocky hills.A large cholla cactus's golden spiny arms glow against the desert sky.Sunlit desert hills crowned with boulders and dotted with dry shrubs.A prickly cholla cactus shines golden in bright desert light.A spiky yucca stands in the foreground while a few vehicles wait on a rise.A branching Joshua tree rises above granite boulders on a desert slope.Two yucca plants lift dried seed heads high above the rocky desert.A jumble of rounded granite boulders sits behind green-crowned yucca plants.A single forked Joshua tree stands along the open desert floor.A weathered, twisted desert shrub tangles among huge boulders.Spiky Joshua trees lean on a sandy slope beneath a huge tan boulder.Crooked Joshua trees rise from sandy scrub beside pale desert boulders.Big smooth tan boulders stack into a rugged desert outcrop.One tall Joshua tree stands alone in a flat brushy desert field.A big branching Joshua tree towers over low plants in open desert.A gnarled Joshua tree frames a pale snow-capped mountain far off.From a rocky outcrop, dry hills fall to a hazy valley and distant mountains.Twisted Joshua branches frame a distant snow-dusted mountain peak.

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2018 Arizona / California - Joshua Tree National Park

General The desert journey began in Arizona and ended in California, and the two halves of it are two different deserts. The road out of Phoenix runs north and west through the Sonoran Desert, the warmest and wettest of the North American deserts, where the saguaros stand along t …