The valley has hundreds of beautiful water features. First off, when we talk about "Palm Springs" we are actually talking about the Palm Springs area, including the Coachella Valley communities of Palm Springs, Cathedral City, Desert Hot Springs, Coachella, Rancho Mirage, Palm Desert, Indian Wells, La...
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This is our eighteenth year visiting Palm Desert/Coachella Valley area of California. We come here to enjoy the incredible scenery, hike in the desert and mountains and to watch polo. This year, as in most years, Monte and Aleta visited with us, thus doubling the...
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We are in Indio, a town in California's Coachella Valley. It's February and it's Sunday. That means it's going to be a Polo Day! [caption id="attachment_2866" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Sunday Polo![/caption] We start our day by heading to the Eldorado Polo Club. Once there we head to Roc's...
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Getting there: It was time for our annual trip to Palm Desert so we packed our bags and hit the road, this time with Monte and Aleta. We decided we wanted to get away from the snow and cold as quickly as we could so we headed straight south...
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Wind Turbines in the San Gorgonio Pass The entrance to the Coachella Valley from the east is through the San Gorgonio Pass which is a narrow valley between two of the highest mountains in North American. This pass funnels wind into the valley, creating one of...
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On Day 8 we started slowing down the pace and just enjoying the peace and beauty of the Coachella Valley. Day 9 is more of that. One of many beautiful sidewalks Okay...
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S-L-O-W-I-N-G it down. Time to relax and enjoy. Started our day with a walk around the resort. Headed west first…with a great view of Mount San Jacinto. This mountain rises almost 10,000 feet from the valley floor. No foot hills here…just up! The resort is hosting an auto show...
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Yep, Mona’s birthday….the reason we decided on this trip was so Mona could celebrate her birthday in Palm Springs. We started the morning 50 miles south of Phoenix so we still had some miles to travel. Up to this point, most of our travels have been...
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