Gem & Mineral Show In The Mojave Desert This Weekend!
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Things To Do
Palm Springs Villagefest: Arts, crafts, dining and shopping.
Village Fest Every Thursday Night Palm Springs, CA Join thousands of visitors and locals in beautiful downtown Palm Springs for the valley’s finest event. Every Thursday, downtown Palm Springs transforms into a diverse array of artists, artisans, entertainers, and purveyors of fresh fruits and veggies, flowers, jewelry, snacks and sweets. Add all that to the
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Summer Golf In The Desert
Desert Golf In The Summer Tips on how to stay cool on the golf course. The Coachella Valley is a golfer’s paradise with more than 100 courses including private, semi-private and public courses. In the summer, as temperatures rise to 110+ the rates to play golf drop. Some clubs are offering rounds for as low
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Indio’s open-air market
The Indio Open Air Market is a cumulation of a farmer’s market, swap meet and flea market all rolled into one location. It is a Mexican-style shopping experience that is held twice weekly on Wednesday and Saturday evenings. Gates open at 4 pm, but vendors are not set up until around 6:00 or 6:30 pm.
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Memorial Day 1/2 Day Shopping Trip To Yucca Valley
Antique Shopping In Yucca Valley Memorial Day Shopping Trip Every year on Memorial Day, Pioneer Crossing Antiques has an annual parking lot sale. Shoppers flock to the sale to buy unique items at flea market prices. The shop’s owners say that the Memorial Day Sale is a quick way to sell a lot of their
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Palm Springs Area Offers Snowbirds a Winter Golf Haven
Play golf in the desert . . . Palm Springs, La Quinta, Palm Desert, Indio and Indian Wells. by Tony Schieffer It’s almost wintertime in the Coachella Valley and that can only mean one thing . . .“Snowbirds.” Snowbirds is a term used for individuals who are trying to take refuge from the colder winter
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Geocaching at Ocotillo Wells
Desert Geocaching at the Devil’s Slide Ocotillo Wells State Vehicular Recreation Area Several years ago I was at a dinner party, and a guest told me about his experience geocaching in the Hitchcock Woods in Aiken, South Carolina. It was the first time I had heard about geocaching, a modern day treasure hunting game. I
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Indian Canyons Wildflower Hike @ Palm Springs, CA
Andreas Canyon Hike & Murray Canyon Hike Indian Canyons, Palm Springs, CA April 8th 2010 The wildflowers have reached their peak in the Palm Springs, CA area. The temperatures have warmed up and the pungent aroma of flowers in bloom fills the desert air. April is the perfect month to hike the desert trails, as
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Rememberin’ Panniment Annie
Annie’s rebellious nature included an early marriage at 15, and then leavin’ her husband in Boston to run bootleg whiskey from Canada to Chicago. She worked her way West as a ranch cook in Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado before contractin’ tuberculosis. The sickness forced her to the hot, dry climate of the Shoshone Hot Springs area where Annie took up minin’, and discovered a lifestyle that was with her the rest of her life.
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Four Drives into the Heart of Desert Wildflower Country
Wildflower Touring Text By Gregory McNamee (repurposed from DesertUSA.com – original March ’99) If you are sensitive to the rhythms of the desert, you’ll know that the period from March to mid-April is a time when a special kind of natural magic can occur. All through February, if the gentle winter rains have arrived on
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