Up Fish Creek.
The lost city of Petra, Jordan, is a long way from San Diego. This faraway place, where the final scenes of the 1989 movie “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” were shot, came to mind in a trip to Split Mountain, in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.
The spectacular Petra gorge, where Indiana, his father and the hated Nazis discover the temple holding the holy grail, is a three- to five-hour drive from the Jordanian capital, Amman. Split Mountain, up the Fish Creek wash in Anza-Borrego, is about an hour and a half from central San Diego. Like the scene in the movie, cruising through Split Mountain puts drivers at the base of shear sandstone cliffs, rising perhaps a hundred feet or more from the dusty bed of Fish Creek.
Check out Fish Creek and Split Mountain if you have a chance this weekend.
