Palm Springs, rest & relaxation meet Jason Bourne

Friday, 19 October.  Left Vandenberg AFB around 9:00am and headed south down 101 toward Santa Barbara and the greater LA area.  Wonderful scenic drive down 101...beautiful views of the Pacific Ocean.  Once we passed Santa Barbara and Ventura, we continued on 101, motoring thru Oxnard, Camarillo, and Thousand Oaks before picking up CA Hiway 134 that took us thru Glendale, Pasadena, and Arcadia...and picking up I-210 in the Northern LA metro area. We eventually turned south at Fontana, taking I-15  South to I-10 East and driving thru such great places as Rancho Cucamonga.  What a great name, eh?  I-10 East took us the rest of the way into the Palm Springs area, featuring the well-known towns of Rancho Mirage, Thousand Palms, Desert Palms, Bermuda Dunes, La Qunita, and Indian Wells - all of which we would end up visiting, shopping in, or driving thru as we took in the larger Palm Springs area. We arrived at the TT Palm Springs campground (which is actually in Palm Desert) around mid-afternoon. The campground here is very nice, quite large, with oversized campsites and full hook-ups (meaning water, 50-amp service and sewer hook-ups). The campground has hundres of palm trees that give the campground a very Southern California desert look.  Here's a couples photos of our campsite to give you a perspective.  We're definitely planning on coming back to this campground in the future.

 

 

 

We decided to use this stop as a "rest & relaxation" pause and did just that.  We did meet another couple who were also camped here, John & Jennifer, and made tentative plans to meet up at their home campground in College Station, Texas.  Which is right next to Bryan, home to many of our relatives on our Dad's side...meaning several Metzers.  This might work out just great.  We already have plans to meet up with a cousin over the weekend of 10/11 November - the more the merrier!

 

If you've never been to the Palm Springs area before, or heard about what's here, this part of CA is full of gated communities and golf courses galore.  Just one after another everywhere we turned.  I can certainly see what people winter down here - especially golferes.  We also managed to take in the latest Jason Bourne movie, The Bourne Legacy, that continues the Bourge sage, but without Jason (played by Matt Damon) this time; Jeremy Renner does the honors in this movie.  I don't want to give away too much about the movie - which is very action-packed and a thriller - but I predict the producers may have plans to team Jason/Matt with this latest chapter in the series.  If so, should be one great movie.

 

Our stay here at TT Palm Springs - even if it is actually located in Palm Desert - turned out to be a good one for rejuvenating our energy levels.  Now it's on to Verde Valley and the Sedona, AZ area.  A mere 5.5 hour drive across some of America's most inhospitable desert territory.  This will undoubtedly be a very boring drive!  See ya' down the road!