Outdoors: Anza-Borrego’s palm groves beckon to be explored

San Diego Union Tribune

Center

Factuality

Ownership

Outdoors: Anza-Borrego’s palm groves beckon to be explored

Have you wandered in the wilderness, the sagebrush desolation,The bunch-grass levels where the cattle graze?Have you whistled bits of rag-time at the end of all creation,|And learned to know the desert’s little ways?— Robert Service, “Call of the Wild” It was warm for a winter day and the words of a favorite poet swirled in my head as I approached the welcoming shade of a palm oasis in the boulder piles that create Anza-Borrego’s Tierra Blanca m…