I-10 Palm Springs to Arizona, Oct 13, 2006

Welcome to our world as we see it through the buggy windshield with the windshield wipers plumb in the middle. We are barrelling through the Mohave Desert, with mountains on all sides, Willy Nelson on the CD, and all of these incredible clouds. It rained today in the the western part of the Coachella Valley, where Palm Springs is located, and since it rains 5 days a year here, it was a very big deal. The entire weather forecast for the last 2 days has been about-rain, and then it only sprinkled in the west! The rest of the news today in Palm Springs was about the hospitalization of Gerald Ford. We were on Gerald Ford Drive today in Rancho Mirage and were about a block from the hospital- the Eisenhower Medical Center. These Republicans stick together. The roads in Palm Springs area are interesting-Frank Sinatra Drive, Bob Hope Drive, Dinah Shore Drive, Gene Autry Trail, and some guy Ramon. I wonder how many folks, except us old retired dudes, know who Dinah Shore and Gene Autry were?? Indio named their streets after the Presidents. And all the rest of the streets are named after a Palm-east, west, date, etc. We understand that it is 120 degrees for weeks here in the summer- but it is a dry heat! But then it is 70-80 in January, 90 in October.