The Good
- Starting mid-November the outside temperature is perfection hovering around 70 degrees. So nice to lounge outside and read. (Sorry, cold climate friends)
- Palm Springs has pretty decent air quality. A number of owners in the park escape from their primary residence in Los Angeles to avoid the smog.
- Golf courses galore.
- Extremely easy to find your way around town (Palm Springs, Palm Desert, Cathedral City, Rancho Mirage). The streets have names I am sure you all recognize—Bob Hope Drive, Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra Avenue, O.J. Simpson Road—no, they do not have O.J. Simpson Road—that is just Mike Main humor.
- Restaurants—lots of them and reasonable prices.
- The golf courses are not cheap. You better be ready to pull out a 100 dollar bill + when you show up for your tee time. Still debating whether to hand over the cash to play a game.
- This is really barren desert unless you stumble on a source of water. Hardly a bit of green here.
- Many of snowbirds have arrived in Palm Springs, and they are really, really bad drivers.
- It is more difficult to meet people in an RV Resort with sites owned by individuals. The people come back each year to mingle with long-term friends and tend to shy away from the “renters”.
- Palm trees provide a home to rats. Who knew there were rats up high in the fronds. Ugh!
- Palm trees provide a home to cockroaches. The disgusting little insects hide in between the bark. Mike has declared war on them, but somehow I think he will lose the battle. Ugh, again.
- The valley gets some serious wind.
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