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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Near a Geocache in the Desert We began our trip to California with a couple of nights in Norman, Oklahoma, visiting Monte and Aleta and helping out with a wiring project. We set out early morning on Tuesday, with Las Cruces, New Mexico as our destination...
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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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First light Started the day with a three hour geocaching walk in the desert. Left at first light to make sure I got done before the heat of the day. I found nine caches in spite of the problems geocaching.com was having. Glasses tinkling? We really loved the...
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Lonesome Dove We started our day with a walk around the resort. Shadow Ridge is a new resort and parts are still under construction. However, the completed parts of the resort are beautiful with water features, golf courses and flowers and palm trees everywhere. We love walking this resort, admiring...
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