We left the Cholla Cactus Garden and continued along Pinto Basin Road. It was as if we were in a completely new land when we came over a ridge and landed into the “Transition Zone”.

This area is the land that lies between the Colorado Desert and the Mojave Desert. We pulled off at a trailhead to look around and take pictures. This is the typical kind of landscape that was in this area.

We were drawn to all the different rock formations and couldn’t really say why. In fact we commented on that several times. The next day we would really find out more about these rocks and get a very good look at why we were so drawn to them. In the meantime – pictures!

I really hesitated including this picture. But I was really happy. And I shrank it small enough to not be able to really make out what I look like :p