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Sunday, February 16, 2025

Winter 2025 Palm Springs CA Recap

 January 9 - February 7 2025 - WINTER 2025


Winter 2025 Southbound Trip Recap contains links to Day 1 - 8 posts
Weekly Recap Jan 4 - Jan 10 Best Coffee
TOTAL DAYS PALM SPRINGS- 21

DAYS AWAY TO DATE - 29

RESORT
We have stayed in Oasis many times before, the last being 2015. We like this resort, it is very quiet. There aren't any activities.
I hated that we had an upstairs unit, those stairs are treacherous. 
The kitchen is extremely well stocked, it even had a potato masher and provided salt and pepper.
Housekeeping is once a week.



FOOD


Our first meal was lunch as Las Casuelas, as we had always enjoyed it there.


We ate at Bill's Pizza twice, downtown Palm Springs and Desert Hot Springs. We both thought DHS was a better pizza. But we had done PS on a Monday when wine was 1/2 price.

We also had a lunch and a dinner at Blue Coyote downtown.
Strange sight - Mr. and Mrs. S. Claus seated next to us.



On our last night we went to the Purple Room Supper Club.

Breakfast was always in the condo. We used the BBQ once, it was electric so it didn't get hot enough. 


SHOPPING

We went to the factory outlets twice, because there was a power outage the first time.
The dinosaurs are more exciting that a shopping mall, and they are next to it.



I had shopped at T J Maxx's and John came with me the second time.

ENTERTAINMENT



Purple Room






HIGHLIGHTS

We always find new things to see. There were lots of murals to explore.

Marilyn was top of my list and we found her, accidently, on our first trip into Palm Springs.








Cathedral City







Pioneertown was fun but cold!


Coachella was new to us.


The Cabot Museum was a great find in Desert Hot Springs.


Driving to the Salton Sea, we stopped and had a date shake and a root beer float.
I'm disappointed we never did find Slab City.



Bombay Beach was a quirky find for a beer.


John got lots of golf in.



Indio





La Quinta


LOVES/HATES
Love the weather, especially those blue skies!
Hate that you have to drive everywhere.
Love the wine prices!
Hate the huge restaurant portions.
Love pool time.
Love the shopping.





MURALS















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Tuesday, January 28, 2025

2008 Palm Springs and Route 66


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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