{"id":438,"date":"2009-09-13T16:12:37","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T16:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/huell-howser-archives\/2009\/09\/30\/anza-borrego-road-trip-with-huell-howser-148\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T21:36:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T21:36:48","slug":"anza-borrego-road-trip-with-huell-howser-148","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/2009\/09\/13\/anza-borrego-road-trip-with-huell-howser-148\/","title":{"rendered":"Anza Borrego &#8211; Road Trip with Huell Howser (148)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On this desert adventure, Huell visits the Anza Borrego Desert State Park and the community of Borrego Springs. The Park is the largest state park in California, with five hundred miles of dirt roads, 12 wilderness areas and miles of hiking trails. It&#8217;s one of the most beautiful places on earth. Huell then gets to know the locals in town and visits some wonderful businesses. He samples some goodies at the Fudge Factory and checks out some very unique art at Liesel\u2019s Art Studio and has lunch at an unlikely French bistro, the French Corner. We finish our visit with the amazing sculptures of Ricardo Breceda who makes creatures from the past come alive with metal and a welding torch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Note: This episode was released across Public Broadcasting Service&#8217;s (PBS) affiliated stations in California, but not necessarily on the same day for each station. The date shown represents the earliest, approximate airdate for this episode.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Embedded Media titled: RDTP148_anza_borrego\" src=\"https:\/\/video.chapman.edu\/V\/Video?v=10126868&amp;node=44078836&amp;a=62436599&amp;preload=false\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this desert adventure, Huell visits the Anza Borrego Desert State Park and the community of Borrego Springs. The Park [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"custom_author_name":"","chapman_pin_hero_slider":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2057],"tags":[3658,3659,3660,3661,3662],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-trip","tag-anza-borrego-desert-state-park","tag-borrego-springs","tag-french-corner","tag-fudge-factory","tag-ricardo-breceda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Huell Howser Archives at Chapman University | Chapman Blogs<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/2009\/09\/13\/anza-borrego-road-trip-with-huell-howser-148\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Anza Borrego - Road Trip with Huell Howser (148) - Huell Howser Archives at Chapman University\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On this desert adventure, Huell visits the Anza Borrego Desert State Park and the community of Borrego Springs. The Park [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/2009\/09\/13\/anza-borrego-road-trip-with-huell-howser-148\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Huell Howser Archives at Chapman University\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-09-13T16:12:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-08-10T21:36:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Daniel Noah\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Daniel Noah\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/huell-howser-archives\\\/2009\\\/09\\\/13\\\/anza-borrego-road-trip-with-huell-howser-148\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/huell-howser-archives\\\/2009\\\/09\\\/13\\\/anza-borrego-road-trip-with-huell-howser-148\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Daniel Noah\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/huell-howser-archives\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/84804bc05fcfde0aefdcd474b118e699\"},\"headline\":\"Anza Borrego &#8211; Road Trip with Huell Howser (148)\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-09-13T16:12:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-08-10T21:36:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/huell-howser-archives\\\/2009\\\/09\\\/13\\\/anza-borrego-road-trip-with-huell-howser-148\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":166,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/huell-howser-archives\\\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Anza Borrego Desert State Park\",\"Borrego Springs\",\"French Corner\",\"Fudge Factory\",\"Ricardo Breceda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Road Trip\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/huell-howser-archives\\\/2009\\\/09\\\/13\\\/anza-borrego-road-trip-with-huell-howser-148\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/huell-howser-archives\\\/2009\\\/09\\\/13\\\/anza-borrego-road-trip-with-huell-howser-148\\\/\",\"name\":\"Anza Borrego - Road Trip with Huell Howser (148) - Huell Howser Archives at Chapman University\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/huell-howser-archives\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2009-09-13T16:12:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-08-10T21:36:48+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/huell-howser-archives\\\/2009\\\/09\\\/13\\\/anza-borrego-road-trip-with-huell-howser-148\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/huell-howser-archives\\\/2009\\\/09\\\/13\\\/anza-borrego-road-trip-with-huell-howser-148\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/huell-howser-archives\\\/2009\\\/09\\\/13\\\/anza-borrego-road-trip-with-huell-howser-148\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/huell-howser-archives\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Anza Borrego &#8211; Road Trip with Huell Howser (148)\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/huell-howser-archives\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/huell-howser-archives\\\/\",\"name\":\"Huell Howser Archives at Chapman University\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/huell-howser-archives\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/huell-howser-archives\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/huell-howser-archives\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Huell Howser Archives at Chapman University\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/huell-howser-archives\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/huell-howser-archives\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/huell-howser-archives\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/91\\\/2026\\\/04\\\/MasterBrand_000-scaled-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/huell-howser-archives\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/91\\\/2026\\\/04\\\/MasterBrand_000-scaled-1.png\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":435,\"caption\":\"Huell Howser Archives at Chapman University\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/huell-howser-archives\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/huell-howser-archives\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/84804bc05fcfde0aefdcd474b118e699\",\"name\":\"Daniel Noah\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/22c56ab447e471411db9116e3974021a0b8bf18f4f023f2362e4bddac9fd183c?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/22c56ab447e471411db9116e3974021a0b8bf18f4f023f2362e4bddac9fd183c?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/22c56ab447e471411db9116e3974021a0b8bf18f4f023f2362e4bddac9fd183c?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Daniel Noah\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/huell-howser-archives\\\/author\\\/noah\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Huell Howser Archives at Chapman University | Chapman Blogs","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/2009\/09\/13\/anza-borrego-road-trip-with-huell-howser-148\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Anza Borrego - Road Trip with Huell Howser (148) - Huell Howser Archives at Chapman University","og_description":"On this desert adventure, Huell visits the Anza Borrego Desert State Park and the community of Borrego Springs. The Park [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/2009\/09\/13\/anza-borrego-road-trip-with-huell-howser-148\/","og_site_name":"Huell Howser Archives at Chapman University","article_published_time":"2009-09-13T16:12:37+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-08-10T21:36:48+00:00","author":"Daniel Noah","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Daniel Noah","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/2009\/09\/13\/anza-borrego-road-trip-with-huell-howser-148\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/2009\/09\/13\/anza-borrego-road-trip-with-huell-howser-148\/"},"author":{"name":"Daniel Noah","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/#\/schema\/person\/84804bc05fcfde0aefdcd474b118e699"},"headline":"Anza Borrego &#8211; Road Trip with Huell Howser (148)","datePublished":"2009-09-13T16:12:37+00:00","dateModified":"2026-08-10T21:36:48+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/2009\/09\/13\/anza-borrego-road-trip-with-huell-howser-148\/"},"wordCount":166,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/#organization"},"keywords":["Anza Borrego Desert State Park","Borrego Springs","French Corner","Fudge Factory","Ricardo Breceda"],"articleSection":["Road Trip"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/2009\/09\/13\/anza-borrego-road-trip-with-huell-howser-148\/","url":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/2009\/09\/13\/anza-borrego-road-trip-with-huell-howser-148\/","name":"Anza Borrego - Road Trip with Huell Howser (148) - Huell Howser Archives at Chapman University","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/#website"},"datePublished":"2009-09-13T16:12:37+00:00","dateModified":"2026-08-10T21:36:48+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/2009\/09\/13\/anza-borrego-road-trip-with-huell-howser-148\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/2009\/09\/13\/anza-borrego-road-trip-with-huell-howser-148\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/2009\/09\/13\/anza-borrego-road-trip-with-huell-howser-148\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Anza Borrego &#8211; Road Trip with Huell Howser (148)"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/#website","url":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/","name":"Huell Howser Archives at Chapman University","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/#organization","name":"Huell Howser Archives at Chapman University","url":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/91\/2026\/04\/MasterBrand_000-scaled-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/91\/2026\/04\/MasterBrand_000-scaled-1.png","width":2560,"height":435,"caption":"Huell Howser Archives at Chapman University"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/#\/schema\/person\/84804bc05fcfde0aefdcd474b118e699","name":"Daniel Noah","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22c56ab447e471411db9116e3974021a0b8bf18f4f023f2362e4bddac9fd183c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22c56ab447e471411db9116e3974021a0b8bf18f4f023f2362e4bddac9fd183c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22c56ab447e471411db9116e3974021a0b8bf18f4f023f2362e4bddac9fd183c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Daniel Noah"},"url":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/author\/noah\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13541,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/13541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}