Palm Springs - No Bad Days, No Bad Views

I really like Palm Springs but then I really liked Death Valley NP, San Diego, San Francisco, Tucson, Sedona, Flagstaff, Liberal, KS (except for the slide malfunction part), Utah, Chiracahua NP, Baker, NV - well, you probably get the drift. But, here in Palm Springs I especially like the juxtapostion of the warmth and palm trees of the Coachella Valley with the snow on the mountain tops of San Jacinto. I don’t care where you stand in this valley, the view is stupendous. Here is our site in the campground. See what I mean about the palm trees against the background of the snow on San Jacinto? How can you get tired of looking at this?

There is a Saturday/Sunday Street Fair at the College of the Desert in towards Palm Springs where everything is sold: blingy shorts, blingy dark glasses, blingy shoes, blingy jewelry, blingy hats, you name it, here in PS it’s blingy. No navy walking shorts - they’ve got to be hot pink short shorts with fake diamonds along the seams and orange trim on the pockets. (I’ve bought 3 pair.) However, it’s great for people watching, listening to music while noshing in the shade and buying loads of red flame raisins to last a few weeks. We go for those three. Ya gotta have priorities. Here’s Gary gleefully anticipating a hot dog with onions and pickle relish. The only little fly in his ointment is that he’s got to ‘cut’ part off for me. Is that a coffee stirrer he’s using for cutting?

Here’s a typical street scene at the fair. Luckily it was a warm weekend.

But, again, there are no bad views. When we left the street fair, I took a picture looking one way towards one range of mountains, the San Jacintos and then the other direction towards the Santa Rosas. A third direction has the Gorgonios and in the fourth direction, you’d be looking at Joshua Tree National Park with its mountains. There are just no bad views here.

When we were driving back from our kayak trip, we noticed these vehicles also coming up the road. They’ve probably been out in the desert with their toys and now have to head back to work. But, next weekend, they’ll run their toys up onto their trailer, hitch it up to their truck or RV and head out to the desert again. We see this every time we hit the highways around here. Not something we ever saw in Iowa. These two vehicles seemed to be together - lots of toys and an RV to live in when not out on the desert