Palm Springs Thousand Trails

On September 16th we headed to Palm Desert to the Palm Springs Thousand Trails. It's funny that it is called Palm Springs since it is not actually there! Lol.

We are here for three weeks and our friends Scott and Terri will be coming here for a week. His birthday is the 26th and we are happy to be celebrating it with them! His daughter Krista, Son-in-law Eric and of course grandson Jordan also came for the weekend.

Here is our campsite. The park is actually still a working Date Farm, hence all the palm trees.

Palm Springs TT campground

Whenever we are here with the Blankenbillers, we always try to get to the Salton Sea. Google the Salton Sea if you do not know about it's history, it is VERY interesting. Talk about a DEAD sea!

Anyway, Scott had heard about the Ski Inn. It is supposed to have amazing burgers!

Ski Inn

It has been featured on the Anthony Bourdain TV show on the Travel Channel.

Anthony Bourdain at the Ski Inn

Because Scott really wanted to go here, and it was his birthday week, we went and got some burgers, and they really were good!

Burgers at Ski Inn

The cook came out and asked us how we liked them. We told them they were delicious. He said that was good, because he tries to make them more better then awful! LOL He was a real hoot!

After eating lunch Scott wanted to take a hike, keep in mind it was about 105-107* out. We went to the Sonny Bono Salton Sea Wildlife Refuge. The girls walked partway with us, but because of the heat decided to turn around. It was Scotts day, so I walked all the way. I figured he wouldn't leave me to die!!!!  At the end of the trail was a small mountain that we climbed up to get this view. To prove we made it I took this selfie!

Nice view

While we were in Palm Desert some other old time friends of ours came to the campground. Dave and Charlie Higby are fairly new Thousand Trails members. They are the ones we went to the Reagan Library with last year. Charlie told us about a couple touristy places they had gone to, so we went to check them out. We are glad she told us about them! Thanks Charlie!

This is Frank Sinatra's house in Palm Springs. We couldn't go in, but right about the same time we saw Huel Howser's show on PBS that did a tour of it. It really brought it to life to us.

Sinatra House

Just around the corner from the Sinatra house is an eccentric artist named Kenny Irwin Jr. It's a good thing his daddy is rich! He makes Robot Sculptures out of garbage and occasionally sells them out of Senior's back yard. It is nothing I would want, or want in my neighborhood, but it is worth seeing if you are in the Palm springs area!

Robot Sculptures

Well that's it for today,

See you all soon!

Love you,

Brian and Patty