Mid-Century Palm Springs, CA

I love Palm Springs, CA in February, I do. Modernism Week puts mid-century architecture and design on display. I grew up in Southern California surrounded by furniture now called mid-century. It’s a coincidence that my birthday falls in the middle of Modernism Week. This is my third visit to PS on my birthday, 2016, 2019 and 2022 (2/22/22). Not sure when I will be back?

Add Modernism to your bucket list if you love interior design and cool archetecture, not to mention great warm weather in February. You won’t regret it. There are guided and self guided tours of private and celebrity homes. Vibrant colors and clean lines abound. It’s a beautiful gay place, if you get my drift.

The Vintage Trailer Show is my favorite. I missed this year, had a ticket, but Maggie was not doing well with her Valley Fever (see my last post). Happily, she is back to her old self a week later at Mission Creek where a clear stream was perfect on a sunny day hike. Palm Springs offers lots of great activities, wonderful food, drag dinner theather, spas and hot springs, and great shopping according to my pal Sylvia, and she knows her shopping.

Alaskans flock to Palm Springs, along with Canadians, and mid-west snowbirds, identified by the white pasty skin. Golf has become out of this budget expensive. Three years ago I could find a deal between $40-$50. Those same courses are now charging up to and more than $100. There are no municipal courses, so everything is resort pricing. I suppose the courses are trying to make-up for no Canadian revenue the last two years.

Next week I will be heading to Northern Nevada via Mesquite. I lived in Carson City from 1995 – 99, and learned to play golf there. I haven’t been back since working the 2004 mid-term with my Northern Nevada labor buddies, they are all long retired. At least there is affordable golf and friends to visit.

In April I will drive west to Santa Cruz and the Pacific Ocean, I am missing the beach. My schedule is very flexible until July 1, when I start my campground hosting at Grizzly Creek Campground in the Humbolt State Recreation Area, for two months and then onto the Deschutes River State Recreation Area OR. The area is a park at the confluence of the Deschutes and Columbia rivers and is a few miles east of The Dalles.

State campgrounds have become incredibily busy and reservations must be made in advance since the advent of COVID-19. A good thing that more people are enjoying camping, but I dislike being tied to a schedule. But, I am living the dream.

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