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Palm Springs’ Amazing Air Museum!
The Palm Springs Air Museum is located on the north side of the Palm Springs Airport. The Air Museum is housed in an expansive structure that includes the two main display halls and hangars, a theater, gift shop, research library, flight simulator and education center. It’s website indicates it’s been rated by CNN as one of the top 14 Air Museums in the World. The museum provides an up-close look at the legendary fighters and bombers of WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. The warm, dry desert climate is ideal for preserving planes, so in this regard the museum is well situated. What’s most amazing is that most of these planes are flight-worthy (27 flyable aircraft), making …
Tagged Air Museum, Airplane, Palm Springs, Palm Springs Air Museum, WWII
.All Trips / California / North America / Southwestern USA
A hike up Tahquitz Canyon, Palm Springs
It’s a great time of year to be visiting the desert regions of the Southwestern USA. The weather is warm and pleasant, the wildflowers are in bloom, and the oppressive heat of summer is a distant memory. This is the time of year to go on a hike in the Mojave and that’s what we’re going to look at today: a walk up tranquil Tahquitz Canyon just outside of Palm Springs, California. This is one of several canyons in the area, each with its own character, each awaiting exploration!
Centuries ago, ancestors of the Agua Caliente Indians settled in the Palm Springs area. They adapted well to life in the desert and developed a complex network of communities …
.All Trips / California / North America / Southwestern USA
Joshua Tree National Park
There’s something about the sight of “trees” (even if they’re just “pseudotrees”) that I find appealing and relaxing. For example, I think the Sonoran desert around Tucson is far more interesting and beautiful because of its giant saguaro cacti. The same is true of the thick growth of ‘Joshua Trees’ in the high Mojave Desert of California and Nevada.
I first visited Joshua Tree in 1983 when it was still a National Monument (declared so three quarters of a century ago by FDR in 1936 & received National Park status in 1994). The memories of broad vistas, desert vegetation, unusual rock formations and Joshua trees remained with me and I’ve returned many times since including on a two night backpacking trip …
