2008 Palm Springs and Route 66

 1991 Palm Springs 

1996 March Palm Springs and San Diego

1997 Palm Springs and Coastal Drive to SF

2000 Palm Desert Ramona San Diego Tijuana LA

2003 Los Angeles Palm Springs Death Valley CA

2004 Palm Springs CA Lake Havasu AZ Las Vegas NV Los Angeles CA

November 2008 - Palm Springs CA

We were certainly busy on this trip. We flew into LA and drove to Palm Springs.

Leaving LA.

I-10 to Palm Springs. It is about 100 miles from LA to PS.

A sure sign you are getting close to Palm Springs.

We stayed at Oasis.

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Downtown Palm Springs

Sonny Bono - Bono, the late singer turned mayor and Republican congressman who was once famously married to singer Cher, previously lived in the Crestview Drive home that was built in 1940 by the Gillette razor family. The property, known as the "Sonny Bono Estate," is a 15-acre, gated compound.

A member of the Republican Party, Bono served as the 16th mayor of Palm Springs, California, from 1988 to 1992, and served as the U.S. representative for California's 44th district from 1995 until his death in 1998.

We always stop to say hello to Lucy!

Driving around town.

CAFFE ITALIA Serving domestic and Italian wines, delicious Northern Italia food, and music by our talented singing staff.

El Paseo Drive Palm Desert

Einstein

Desert Memorial Park is a cemetery in Cathedral City, near Palm Springs. Opening in 1956 and receiving its first interment in 1957.

                                Sonny Bono                                                    Frank Sinatra

                     William Powell                                                      Diana Powell

                                  Betty Hutton                                   James Patterson The General

Mesquite Golf

# 4 Par 3

#14

Palm to Pines - This scenic driving tour climbs from the desert through the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains, before descending again to the desert. The route passes through a series of areas preserved for animal habitat, ranging from desert oasis to snow-capped mountains, and parts of the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument and San Bernardino National Forest. Drivers can pull off the winding and often steep road at a number of pulloffs or lookout points, each with habitat ranging from forested mountainsides with pine, oak and fir, to a reservoir, to arid brush- and cactus-covered stretches -- not to mention sweeping views of mountains and valleys.

We went from sea level to 6000 ft above sea level.

We did a number of day trips along Route 66.

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