Palm Springs

Best travel reports from Palm Springs

Off to camper life

On Friday, it was time to head back to LA to return the rental car and pick up the camper. We already knew it would be a very long day, but unfortunately, it ended up being even...

Mini-Special: Funny License Plates

The Americans are indeed a bit 'unique', and we haven't quite warmed up to their 'always friendly but completely forced' nature (and probably never will 😉). However, they are...

Behind the Scenes - which hasn't made it into the individual blogs until now

Since we – more unconsciously than intentionally – always split our travel times here into thirds (that just struck me), we once again have a third of our stay in Palm Springs...

Say good-bye to Mid-Century-Modern – (nearly) on the road again

Four weeks in Palm Springs are coming to an end. Tomorrow is departure day. In the past four weeks, there wasn't much to report. Our trip to Mount San Jacinto, the visit to Palm...

Rotating up and down the hill ... Palm Springs /CA

Even during our last visit to Palm Springs a few years ago, a ride on the longest rotating cable car in the world, Palm Springs Aerial Tramway, was on the list. However, it...

Let’s go outside – Not only Palm Canyon is waiting!

What do you do when surrounded by palm trees? You go where there are even more palm trees. Not quite logical, but let's assume that for now 😊 With a means of transportation...

Pacific Crest Trail, Mount San Jacinto

The last few days we have crossed the San Jacinto Wilderness. The highlight was the ascent to the San Jacinto summit at 3300 meters. We had to cross small snowfields and tackle...

Taco Tuesday

The moon looks like California 😋

30. Day - day 30 (for english scroll down)

Today we had another slightly longer car ride planned. Our first destination was the wild west village of Oatman on Route 66. On the way, we stopped at a funny gas station with...

Tag 40 - Palms Springs & Roadtrip to San Diego

Take down tents, have breakfast, slowly leave the national park, find a shower. Then I take a little detour and have lunch in Palms Springs. I see Marylin Monroe (the woman is...

13.10.2021 - 19.10.2021: Palm Springs

Calendar 13.10.2021Trip from the Grand Canyon via Oatman to Palm Springs 14.10.2021 - 18.10.2021Chilling at the hotel pool, dolce far niente 16.10.2021Palm Springs Aerial...

Palm Springs

The Joshua Tree National Park and the surrounding area were visited in Palm Springs. But honestly, the place is too hot for me at 34 degrees Celsius at 10 in the morning! It's a...

Palm Springs 17.9.18

You can reach Palm Springs from San Diego relatively quickly via the interstates, but that would be boring. We chose a route that seemed more interesting in terms of driving,...

Palm Springs = the hellish heat

This will be a short post because there's not much to say about Palm Springs except one thing: IT WAS HOT. Even hotter than Death Valley. So we spent the day in the pool :D What...