Phoenix, AZ

Wow, we've finally bid farewell to California after being in the state for 5 months! We left Palm Springs and drove through some pretty gusty wind to Phoenix. We only spent a day in Phoenix because most of the RV parks in the town are for people 55 or older. We have a timeline now because we are meeting up with Michelle's parents in Big Bend for their Spring Break and couldn't spend much time there anyway.

We enjoyed our day in Phoenix by going to Surprise, AZ to see some Texas Ranger and KC Royal's training camp!

It would have been cool I'm sure but a big ol' rain storm shut down practice. The fields were pretty though and if you're a baseball fan you could get nice and close to your team at training camp. (Watching them practice is free and watching a practice game is $10 or more).

After training camp we went to the Phoenix Art Museum. We've come to like art museums (we went to one in Santa Barbara and Phoenix and they're fun!).

By the time we got to the art museum the weather cleared up and was very nice the rest of the day!

Joshua Tree National Park

While we were in Palm Springs we took a short trip up the road to Joshua Tree National Park.

This park is a desert beauty with lots of Joshua Trees (a type of Yucca Tree) and cacti.

Yikes! Those look fierce!

The park also has an old gold mine with lots of the old equipment still lying around. The mines were in operation from the 1920's to the 1960's. This is one of the mine entrances covered up to keep us tourists out!

Tahoe Tuesday

Attention everyone! A fly got in the Airstream and I've been hunting it like my life depends on it.

The fly can be so hard to reach! But I'm giving it my best effort.

Michelle even gave me a boost so I could reach it when it landed on the ceiling!

Wish me luck as I continue to hunt the elusive little black speed demon!

Palm Springs, California

Palm Springs is our last city we stayed in before leaving California. We've been in California since October and have loved exploring the diversity of this state!

Palm Springs was spectacular because of the perfectly sunny 70-80 degree weather and because we stayed at a really fun RV Resort!

Many people winter in Palm Springs which means they leave their cold home up north and stay in Palm Springs for the winter to enjoy nice temperatures. There are many people from Canada and Michigan staying in our campground to escape the negative degree temps they would be experiencing at home.

We enjoyed spending lots of time in the sun by the pool.

Palm springs is sort of a retired person's paradise and pretty much everyone we've met is a retired person. We enjoyed hanging out with them anyway and are grateful they let us join in their Casino night, water volley ball and morning pickle ball tournaments. Matt even got made fun of for being so pale. Everyone here is very tan!

Matt playing Pickle Ball!

Casino Night! We played Black Jack

This oasis in the desert is a fun place to be in February!

We also enjoyed a Polo match for $10. I thought it was pretty swanky and couldn't believe an event like that would cost so little.

Tailgating! This is a regular Sunday event and many people had a great tailgate spread with bloody mary's, mimosas and all kinds of food.

The tropheys

Being at the polo match reminded me of Pretty Woman when Julia Roberts goes to a polo match. We even replaced the divots halfway through the match!

Palm Springs is also famous for growing Dates. We went to Sheild's Date Farm and drank a Date shake, it was delicious, and learned all about Dates.

Overall Palm Springs was a sunny wonderful place!

We even ended up staying an extra day we liked it so much. Oh, there's also a Marylin Monroe statue!

Now we are off to Arizona for about a week then on to Texas!