May 28, 2008 (California Trip, Part 2)

[This is the continuation of California Trip, Part 1.]
The next day, which happened to be Easter, we drove about an hour north from Palm Springs to Joshua Tree National Park. This is the place where the Colorado Desert, a low-lying desert, meets the Mojave Desert, a much higher-altitude desert. (This is the place high […]

May 21, 2008 (California Trip, Part 1)

In early March, coincidental with Sarah’s Spring Break and the Easter holiday, my company sent the two of us on an expenses-paid trip to sunny Palm Springs, California. I’m pretty sure ‘sunny’ is a part of the name of the town, but I could never get a straight answer about it from any of […]