Tuesday 4.8. (San Diego)

In San Diego we sightsee the Balboa Park (the largerst city park in the USA), nice Spanish colonial architecture, but mainly neautiful gardens. In San Diego, there is very pleasingly, around 30 degrees and fresh wind blowing from the ocean but the sun is scorching while we look for a place at the beach. We drive to the ocean through the peninsula Coronado and see one of the oldest hotels in the USA (victorian Del Coronado) and stay at the beach near the hotel. The beach is beautiful, the ocean colder than yesterday, waves are great so the we let them drag us for several hours. We are only 10 miled from the Mexican borders. Before 4 o'clock, we try to get rid of the sand even from the ears and set off toward the Joshua Tree. We ge to inlands, into the desert, the temperature rises to 44. Arriving to the campground in the national park we are more or less alone here (camping in the desert in the the summer does not seem to be that attractive for the natives). But in the evening, it is getting cooler, more bearable to exist. Rarely we see a rabbit or a lizard but otherwise it is empty and forsaken.