Around Palm Springs

With the Bay Area being cloudy and rainy, Palm Springs has sun and warm temperatures.  Here's the view from our villa compound.

Breakfast by the pool......

....isn't complete with someone's phone addiction.  I'm talking about me, not pictured!

Our second day, we spent in Palm Springs itself and started with a hike on the mountain above the Palm Springs Museum.  Here's a view from about half way up looking east down the Coachella Valley.

The trail was quite steep and we didn't feel our shoes had enough grip so we came down short of the end.

So we spent an hour or so inside the Palm Springs Museum.  Here's one of my favorite pieces. 

I'll just leave this here.

In the afternoon, we went to a spa where I got a hot stone massage and Onions got a seaweed wrap, and we spent a few hours laying by the pool and enjoyed the steamroom and jacuzzi.  Quintessential Palm Springs!

That evening, based on the recommendations of two friends, we ended up eating at a restaurant called Workshop. Trendy and expensive.  $26 dollars for a hamburger isn't our style.  I think we've decided that going out to fancy restaurants isn't what we really get much out of on vacation.

At the museum there was an exhibit on the furniture of mid-century modern houses of Palm Springs so before we left for the airport the next day, we spent a few hours driving around finding famous mid-century modern houses.  Here's the Kauffman house.  This is the same man who built Fallingwater who had this house built in Palm Springs.

This is the "Tramway Gas Station," now remodeled and open to the public as the Palm Springs Welcome Center.

Elvis spent part of his honeymoon here in this house.

Up in the foothills, this is the Edris house, with its great views.  I'm not a real fan of mid-century modern, but I can see how it became popular in this landscape.