We took a couple of days to escape the cooler temps (60 and rainy when we left) and the May Gray in Carlsbad and had a quick getaway in Rancho Mirage, one of the 10 desert cities about 2 hours from the coast. It's not summer yet so the temps in the desert are pretty comfortable (it was 93 this morning when we left to drive home, and mid 80s yesterday) as opposed to 100 - 120 in the summertime.
We always take the drive through Temecula and then the 2-lane road (74 to (11 comments)
What looks like a palm tree from a distance but really isn't?
A palm tree cell tower!
We have been to the California desert (Palm Desert, La Quinta, Palm Springs) a number of times and spied this palm tree cell tower on one of our weekend trips. It was too perfect, even from a distance, so you could tell it was fake. (18 comments)
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