Archive for: August 2012

Adding a new member to the team

If you’ve read our stories over the past year and a half, you know that we don’t sit still very long and that we love travel and adventure. When you’ve been high in the Himalayas, crisscrossed Hawaii, many national parks and other parts of the world, what can do to up the adventure?

You can add a member to the team. And it wouldn’t be so adventurous to add an adult. It would be really interesting to add a child who could grow from an early age with the same spirit of adventure and access to the world. A child whose parents are passionate about seeing anything and everything with plenty of exertion along the way.

We’re doing exactly that. By next March, we’ll welcome the newest member of the Maximum Adventure team. We don’t know yet if we’ll be welcoming a boy or a girl, but we’ll let you know when we know. Early indications are for a girl…

We’re incredibly excited to have this future adventure and know that just like most of what we do, it will have challenges. But we’ll do this like we do everything…at full speed and without hesitation.

A weekend in Joshua Tree

Joshua Tree has to be the nearest national park to a major US city that is known to the fewest people.

Just an hour and half from our home in Pasadena, Joshua Tree is a winter-only kind of place due to the extreme Summer heat in the Mojave Desert.

Uncrowded beauty

Its seasonality means it doesn’t enter the minds of LA people who are focused on the LA Basin and things along the highways north and south of Los Angeles. That works out well for having peace and tranquility in a park so close to 17 million people.

Joshua Tree is named for its peculiar trees that are so concentrated there but present all over the Mojave. Up close, they don’t appear to be trees at all and are lousy as fire wood (don’t worry, we only tried to burn pieces we found on the ground). Read more