Holiday Inn Express Indio, Ca

... for some pictures. I decided to shin up a nearby rock and successfully got some shots without tumbling apex over base all the way back down to Palm Springs. Sadly my poise was nowhere in evidence when I made my way the eight feet back down the rock. I fell over once and whilst the congregation were all looking my way to check I was OK – I fell over again. Oh the comedy!

That was enough snow for one day!

... all my eighties favourites and a I had also programmed a bunch of other useful looking stations including the BBC world service. Joy.

What I listened to: The Dylan-a-thon was cut short at the half way mark (the end of the Free wheelin’ album) as great as his bobness is there is a limit for one sitting. Ironically once I had switched him over to Peter Gabriel for his first five albums Bob came on the radio DJing a themed one hour slot – there is no escape.

... most enormous wind farm I have ever seem – there must have a thousand turbines of varying sizes both in the valley and on the hills. If I was better read I could make some comments in line with Cervantes Don Quixote but as I have only read a summary in the Twiterature book I should probably defer to someone with greater knowledge.

Finally and on the brink of sleep I made it to Rancho Mirage where many of the streets are ...

... outlet mall wasn't quite what we were expecting. Looked around for parking for over an hour just for us to realize that we couldn't handle the madness! Mile-long lines coming out of every store that was just not worth the wait. Driving back, got stuck in traffic for an hour and then got lost coming home. Ahhhh! Tuesday night went over to yayas for authentic Mexican food! Tofu-tamales! So good, along ...

... mourants, montrant en premier plan leurs vieilles maisons rafistolees de tole et de planches disparates.

Arrivee a Joshua Tree a la brunante, encore une fois nous devons monter notre campement a la noirceur, ce qui n'est pas toujours facile quand on a deux enfants qui ont faim et pour ajouter la cerise sur le sundae, petite fuite de la vessie juste en ces moments palpitants.

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... medieval.

Topping it off were the multiple factions of friends we got to experience it with. It's always cool when worlds collide at such a fun event. The grounds were at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. It was beautiful, the best weather. The guy who does the lighting for their shows had 140 palm trees surrounding the venue lit up as well. He also rigged the first 20 or so out from each side of the stage ...

Hello friends. It's been a long day - especially for someone who's not worked for 3 months! :) - but it's about to get even longer over the next 3 days so it's good prep. Waiting for merch counts on the shipment that just arrived and then I'm calling it. I was chatting with a former colleague and she threw out the "so I hear you're working on our Canadian ...

We drove out to Palm Spring, Indio yesterday. It was a long drive but a nice one. Freeways were good most of the way (a lot of the freeways here really need some major surface work done) and even though we were in desert for a lot of the way there was still a lot to see. You pass rows and rows and rows of wind turbines set quite closely together, tall ones like we have at home, smaller ones and medium ones. Excellent way to make the most of a natural resource. Wind ...

... team lines up in numerical order, directly behind the other. The opposing team lines up the same way. The umpire rolls the ball between the two teams, and play begins. The game clock stops in case of a foul, fallen pony or rider, pony or player injured, broken tack, loss of helmet, or if the ball rolls out of bounds. A player may leave the field to change ponies without a time out being called if the pony is not playing well but isn't visibly injured ...

... to cancel each morning's mass ascension of the 50 balloons, and, as the time for the Balloon Glow drew near (where the balloons are "inflated" but tethered to the ground, lit by the propane torches that provide the hot air that makes them fly), it was determined that the winds were too strong even for that event. Instead, they had what they called a "Candle Burn", where the propane torches are lit, without the ...