The weather has been fantastic here, at least 30C each day, yesterday up to 36C. When visiting Palm Springs we have always enjoyed the trip up to Mt San Jacinto national park in the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway. Checked out the weather at the top of the mountain online, max is expected to be 50f (about 14c). We unpacked the puffy jackets to take up with us. The road to the tramway is quite steep and we parked in car park F, only about 600m down from the tramway st...

Had nothing much planned for the day. Spent the day checking out the surrounds of Palm Springs. Drove past the Palm Springs Aviation Museum, didn't bother going inside as I have been to quite a few. One thing I was surprised to see was Kangaroo Paw plants, I am assuming they are Kangaroo Paw or a type of. Most of the gardens around Palm Springs Town centre are cacti Gardens with so many different types of cacti. Had an uneventful afternoon and night.

About 20k west of Palm Springs is the Desert Hills Premium Outlets, they are massive, the largest in California with over 180 designer stores. Enough to keep you going all day. I normally don't like shopping but even with the ordinary dollar you can get some great bargains here and stock up for a year or two. Spent most of the day shopping and after had a nice Mexican dinner right next to the hotel. I have been seeing a lot of muscle cars getting around while ove...

Another day of shopping, was much better with fewer crowds. Still 42c today and wandered around Palm Springs. Off to Flagstaff tomorrow

Woke early and strolled down to Pinocchio's in the Desert Eatery. Here you can get all you can drink champagne with every meal (yes including breakfast) for $3.99. All the tables around us had people drinking cocktails or champagne, not for me that early though. I stuck with the breakfast burrito and it was huge. Breakfast over, it is off we go to Desert Hills and Cabazon Premium Outlets, they are actually two outlets located right next door to each other so I wi...