2006 RV Trip Diaries - Juneau, AK / Palm Springs, CA
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Juneau
We had a fun time being in Juneau for the week. It snowed 33 inches in a couple of days before we got there and it was sunny and cold for the week we were there. Very beautiful. We went to Tom and Cheri's house one evening and sat in their hot tub in 8 degree weather. The icicles would form in our wet hair but it was fun: a winter wonderland with a multitude of stars out, some shooting stars, and a sliver of the moon.
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We had a nice Thanksgiving at our house with Marcy, Dale, Georgia and her son, Ben. Garrey fixed the turkey and we all made something to go with
it. Karen went to Dr. Walter Soboleff's 98th birthday party while we were
there.
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The three cats of Susan and Mark Hickey's we took care of for the week were a trip!!! Lots of cute antics.
The day after we left it snowed another 19 inches and today it is supposed to snow
again in Juneau.
It's amounted to the most snow Juneau has seen in November since records have been kept.
We are happy to be back in the sunshine of Palm Springs but it has been in the 30's & 40's at
night here. Winter has arrived. The high today
is expected to be a pleasant 72 degrees.
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December 2 - Friday We arrived back in Palm Springs on November 28 from our week in Juneau. Recent activities included shuffleboard, turkey dinner with 40 others at the RV park clubhouse. Dinner with friends of Jerry and Kay's down in Indio, waxing the truck and about 1/3 of the trailer, so far, and today Karen went to a tamale festival in Indio with Jerry & Kay. She tried the strawberry tamale, a salmon, cream cheese, & chives tamale, and Kay had a raspberry-chocolate tamale. Of course, they had all the usual tamales also. The Indio International Tamale Festival parade included a pink Cadillac. |
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December 4 - Monday
We went looking for a place to hike with less traffic and noise. Today we hiked in the Andreas Valley which is an oasis with a beautiful, clear river running through and indigenous palms, mesquite, creosote bushes, CA oaks and maples, etc., and many birds a-singing. It was so quiet there except for the stream bubbling along. The water was very cold which made the forest cool. The Indian Canyon is a large tract of land with the Andreas, Murray and Palm canyons as part of it, set aside as the only approved Congressional Monument which was presented to the Agua Caliente Cahuilla Indian tribe. Higher up Palm Canyon was a gift shop and a park ranger who gave us an informative talk about the Cahuilla Indians. They also had humming bird feeders there with myriads of different hummers. A great find. It was nice to discover this place so close to Palm Springs. Not exactly wilderness but still peaceful and remote enough for our purposes yet just 10 minutes from town.
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Clear spring water pool in Andreas Canyon
Road from Indian Canyons to Palm Springs |
Karen and the impressive, indigenous palms in Palm Canyon |
After the pool and hot tub we went to Jerry
& Kay's trailer to talk and ended up having a delicious dinner with them of
Korean beef, teriyaki chicken wings, egg rolls, and fried rice.
December 5 & 6 Tuesday & Wednesday
On the 5th we read, got the photos developed from our trip to Juneau, bought a crock-pot, and worked on the Web site. On the 6th we cooked using the new crock-pot and Jerry and Kay came over for dinner.
December 7 - Thursday
We had read about a trail that starts not far from our RV Park. The trail is a steady but moderate climb of about 800 feet over 1 1/2 miles. Near the top the trail passes very close to Bob Hope's former residence.
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View from the trail above the Hope house
