Thursday we went into the 1000 Palms Oasis, to see the fan palms there. It's a natural oasis, caused by the water from the San Andreas fault rising up nearly to the surface. It is fascinating to see the palms, and we showed Jen and Sue how the palms have very sharp thorns as protection along their branches near the trunk. It's quite near our campsite, so after that we went into Desert Hot Springs to see the Cabot's Pueblo Museum.
There is a giant indian head carving there, carved by Peter Toth, a Hungarian refugee in 1978. He returned this year to refresh it, and enhance the carving, so it's fresh looking once more. It's a sequoia that was some 750 years old before it fell. Their gift shop was very interesting, though we didn't see the museum with its paintings, it's only open for guided tours and we didn't want to spend the time there. It's a Hopi structure, very large and rambling, and was the home of Cabot Yerxa, an explorer, architect, artist, adventurer, gold miner, and overall Renaissance type of man.
Then we came back to our campsite, and had a nice refreshing swim -although the temps have gone way down, into the 70s, with a bit of a breeze.
After that we met our cousin Jenn Hett in Palm Springs, she's on holiday here with her friend Debbie, they both teach at a pre school on the California coast. Jenn had booked us into Maracas, so we sat right out beside the main road of P.S. and ate a delicious Mexican dinner, and people watched while we caught up on the latest doings of the Hett family.
Later we all strolled down the main street of P.S. enjoying the Villagefest, their night market on Thursday evenings. Tons of jewelry, soap, pottery, food, fresh produce and people as it was Thursday of the long Easter weekend, and there are a heap of people here in town.
Of note is that it's White Weekend when thousands of gay men join their local counterparts for safe fun and frolics.
Friday we all leapt up and got the rental trailer cleared out, we had provided linens and bedding, and things that Sue and Jen needed for their week's stay, so that all came back to us, along with the leftover food and drink that they hadn't finished up.
Sue and Jen caught their plane in P.S. at 1:30 PM for San Francisco where they will have 2 nights staying right at Fisherman's Wharf in a nice hotel that Ian reserved for them. It was such fun having them here with us.
We did laundry when we got home, and we're heading out to P.S. again tonight, to Margarita's Restaurant to celebrate Wendy Simpson's birthday, a day late. A great sendoff for us too.
It has turned very blustery and somewhat cold today, the canopy is banging around over our slide. And the sun is taking a wee holiday, too.
This may be our last posting to the blog for a while, as we start our northward trek.
Bye for now.
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