Although Jim has lived in California his whole life and I have lived here for the past 35 years, neither one of use had ever been to the Palm Springs area. Katie and Brooke were up for the adventure, so we decided it would be the perfect spot to explore for a few days at the end of 2019. We arrived at our hotel, the JW Marriott Palm Desert, late on the evening of December 28th. The next morning, we had breakfast at the hotel, before venturing out to Joshua Tree National Park which is located about 40 miles from Palm Desert. The Forty-Nine Palms Oasis trail was our destination for a hike. It is a 3 mile round trip hike that leads to a collection of palm trees that grow around a rare desert spring. It was a nice hike with a little bit of elevation and interesting desert landscape - lots of barrel cactus and boulders (but no Joshua Trees - we found those later in the day).
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| A Barrel Cactus |
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| Katie posing next to a Joshua Tree |
Next we drove about 15 miles to Pioneertown which was a town built in the 1940’s as a themed live-in Old West movie set. It was designed to provide a place for production companies to enjoy while also using their homes and businesses in movies. Hundreds of westerns were filmed here and it is still used as a movie location today. We wandered through the shops on Mane Street (not Main Street) and were hoping to have a late lunch at Pappy’s and Harriet's, a very popular BBQ spot in Pioneertown. Unfortunately we weren’t the only ones with that idea - the wait was going to be more than 1 1/2 hours long, so we opted for fast food on the drive back to Palm Desert.
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| Pioneertown |
Back at the Marriott, we spent a quiet evening watching movies.
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