The sun was low, the cactus shadows were lengthening and laughter rang out amid the Airstreams.
Natalie Valdez, 36, and Clarence Tsay, 37, who last year got engaged at Joshua Tree National Park, had returned with a gaggle of friends from Los Angeles, San Francisco and beyond. Now they filled four tricked-out trailers in the AutoCamp resort, one of many shiny new enterprises in this ever-more-fashionable corner of the desert.
“I love Joshua Tree — its weirdness, its hippiness. I don’t want it to become commercial,” Valdez said.
