Palm Springs

The last four days have been spent with our friends from Missouri, Rory & Sue.  They are staying in old Palm Springs for two months and just arrived so we helped them rediscover the things we love about this area.  We ate at Zin, An American Bistro and Babe’s BBQ, two of our most favorite places and had lunch at a newly discovered Italian restaurant which will now go on our favorites list as well as Billy Reed’s Steak House. We didn’t just eat.  Sue and I shopped for shoes, John and Rory went to the Verizon store, we spent one day playing golf, took in the Thursday night Street Fest in old Palm Springs and shopped at Pete Carlson’s Golf Store.  It has been wonderful to find fun things to do with friends.

This morning we drove to San Diego where we will prepare for our caravan tour into Baja, Mexico.  John was really happy that it is Sunday so that the traffic wasn’t bad.  Don’t get me wrong, there are a ton of cars and at times we were on 16 lanes of freeways, but not enough traffic to cause slow downs or complete stops. 

This afternoon has not been a good time for me.  I had to move the Jeep out of John’s way and ran into a picnic table, pushing it into a small tree.  We decided to go for a short bike ride but before we could get on the bike trail, my bike skidded on gravel and fell.  So that I would not fall on my knees I stepped out and onto my bike helmet (I was not wearing it) and broke it.  We rode about 6 miles but on the way back I realized my bike had a flat tire.  I walked about 1/2 mile home. Its time for an adult beverage!