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| Tuscan Desert |
From Tuscan we drove to Phoenix, however, we found it rather
disappointing as the RV site was well out of Downtown (as the Americans call
it) and when I say out it was miles out, so we only spent one night in the
urban sprawl and headed to Palm Springs California. We had booked three nights in Desert Hot
Springs, Palm Springs, which was great, as there were four pools and at least 8
spas all feed by natural hot springs.
The notice by the pools claimed that the mineral water is good for Heart
Disease, diabetes, weight loss (had the opposite effect on me), arthritis and
insomnia!
We went up in the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway up 10,000 ft
up the mountain, the tramway was incredible, it took 81 people (probably the 1 was the driver) and we
all had to stand as the floor rotated to ensure we all had 360 degrees view as
we took the 10 minute journey up. We
left a flat valley of sandy desert and arrived in a lush green woodland full of
trees and wildlife, amazing and 20 degrees cooler which was very welcome as it
was over 110 F degrees down below.
Sorry I don’t want to write a boring travel log but I get
carried away, must just mention the huge
San Gorgonio Pass Wind Farm which
consists of 3180 units. Certainly the largest wind farm we have ever seen.
We hit
California Pacific coast yesterday and bang into the smog, it looked like there
was a really bad bush fire ahead. This
was evident until about mid day when the sun had burnt a lot of it away, but
here in Long Beach all my photos show the smog.
Long Beach is
incredible, our RV site is in the middle of all the action, there is a massive
network of cycle paths around the town, they know what ‘cycle friendly’
means. Today we got back to the RV after
a fabulous day on the Queen Mary, they had a special exhibition of Princess
Diana’s gowns. When we got back there is
a film crew outside our gate and after some questioning of the crew found out
they are ‘shooting the latest Audi car” so will be out there later when the sun
goes down and the actual shoot is going to happen, but to make it even more intriguing,
I went into my settings of my ipad to find Wifi and take a look at my screen
shot!!
So far we have driven 3500 miles (5630 kms)
Highlights
The ‘slimming’
hot springs
The contrasts
of scenery, flat desert to rolling hills to smog polluted oceans.
Arriving in
California
The Old Queen
Mary
Brian from
England, who used to go ballroom dancing in Beckenham
Lowlights
The weight
thing!!!!!
Terry getting
barbed cactus spikes in his fingers, it took a pair of pliers to remove. A passing local said they use two rocks to pull them out but Terry didn't trust me to use rocks!
Is it us they are looking for???????
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