TONAPAH, ARIZONA AND PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA

SADDLE MOUNTAIN RV PARK  IS A PASSPORT AMERICA PARK AND ALL I CAN SAY IS THAT  IT WAS ADEQUATE. THERE WASN'T MUCH TO TONAPAH AND THIS IS  SADDLE MOUNTAIN.  I WASN'T IMPRESSED.

WE LEFT THE NEXT MORNING HEADED FOR CALIFORNIA AND EMERALD DESERT RV PARK. IT WAS JUST A SHORT DRIVE TO PALM SPRINGS.

YOU COULD TELL AS SOON AS YOU CROSSED INTO CALIFORNIA THAT EVERYTHING WAS EXTREMELY DRY. WE SAW THIS ORCHARD OF DEAD TREES.

WE WERE AT OUR RV RESORT BY 12:30, THE TEMPERATURE ON THE TRUCK READ  102 DEGREES.

 IT IS A BEAUTIFUL RESORT, AGAIN, NOT VERY MANY PEOPLE AND WE WILL BE  HERE FOR 8 DAYS! 

WE WENT  SWIMMING AND TO THE HOT TUB, AS SOON AS WE COULD GET SET UP.

IT GOT HOTTER......106 DEGREES.......WHICH IS NORMAL FOR HERE. IT WAS HARD TO BELIEVE THAT  THIS WAS THE FIRST DAY OF FALL.

 THE NEXT MORNING WE WENT TO RITE-AID AND GOT OUR FLU SHOTS, WASHED  CLOTHES,  AND THEN SWIMMING AND TO THE HOT TUB....ANOTHER DAY OF 106 DEGREES.  WE WERE DRIVING ON STREETS THAT WERE NAMED AFTER FAMOUS  MOVIE STARS....

GINGER ROGERS, 

DINAH SHORE,  THE RV PARK WAS ON FRANK SINATRA DRIVE.

I WANTED TO GO ON A TOUR OF MOVIE STAR HOMES, SO ON SUNDAY WE HAD A RESERVATION FOR  THE BEST OF THE BEST TOURS. 

IT WAS VERY INTERESTING...... THE TOUR GUIDE HAS LIVED HERE ALL HIS LIFE, SO WE WERE TREATED TO A LOT OF THE HISTORY  OF  PALM SPRINGS.  HE WOULD PULL UP TO A HOUSE AND GIVE US HINTS AS TO WHO LIVED THERE OR WHO HAD LIVED THERE....MOST OF THE TIME WE WEREN'T ABLE TO GUESS. THESE HOMES WERE  JUST"  LITTLE GETAWAY PLACES...."

AND ELVIS PRESLEY'S HOME WAS AT THE END OF A STREET SO HE COULD HAVE HIS PRIVACY.

WE SPENT THE NEXT FEW DAYS RELAXING AND PREPARING TO LEAVE FOR SAUGUS AND THE PUMPKIN/CHRISTMAS TREE LOT. THE VACATION WAS COMING TO AN END!!