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10 More Fun Things To Do In Palm Springs

29.01.2019 , California, Coachella Valley, Indio, Joshua Tree National Park, Palm Desert, Palm Springs , 2 Comments

A blooming ocotillo in the desert. We've already published a list of our 10 favorite things to do in Palm Springs (10 Palm Springs Favorites), but as soon as we finished that post we realized that we needed to tell you about a few more fun...

Our 10 Favorite Things To Do in Palm Springs

22.01.2019 , California, Coachella Valley, Indio, Palm Desert, Palm Springs , 2 Comments

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...

Palm Desert and the Coachella Valley

24.02.2016 , California, Palm Desert, Palm Springs , 1 Comment

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...

Polo Sunday!

24.02.2016 , California, Indio, Palm Desert, Palm Springs , 2 Comments

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...

California and Back

09.04.2015 , California, Redwood National Park , 0 Comments

We began the second half of our spring trip with an expedition from Palm Desert to the Santa Anita Mona's New Friend At Santa Anita Track in Arcadia, California. As soon as we entered the gate we were impressed with the beauty of the track grounds. There were...

California and the Valley Zone

28.03.2015 , California, Palm Desert, Palm Springs , 0 Comments

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...

Palm Desert 2014

31.03.2014 , Bryce Canyon, Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, Glen Canyon Dam, London Bridge, Palm Desert, Palm Springs, Saguaro National Park, Southwest , 0 Comments

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...

Wildlife

09.03.2013 , California, Monterey, West , 0 Comments

Frankly, up to this point this trip has been a little disappointing when it comes to wildlife. Yes, we've seen a couple of golden eagles, plenty of hawks and lots of lizards, but we haven’t seen anything new, nor any of the “special” animals. Can’t tell you...

Big Sur

08.03.2013 , California, West , 0 Comments

Male seal and some of his females Thursday morning we headed north towards Monterey. Just an hour after we left Palm Springs we started encountering LA traffic. And….that traffic continued for the next four hours as we wove our way through downtown LA, past Hollywood and...

Mustang Mona

06.03.2013 , California, Palm Desert, Palm Springs, West , 0 Comments

Mona is a car person., that’s why she drives a Lexus. When she’s in the valley, she remains a car person but one who is fixated on convertibles. That’s why I was scanning the internet looking for a deal on renting a convertible…a Mustang...