On the Road - Pt 4

Did you know that when you rent a car from Alamo you get to pick whichever car you want? I bet you didn't. Neither did I. But that's how it works, and I spent about 20 minutes trying to choose my wheels for the next week or so. I think I did pretty well though, always wanted to drive the Cruiser (see pic).
Next four hours or so were spent driving to Palm Springs in annoyingly slow LA afternoon traffic. Not really that much fun at all.
Palm Springs is definitely worth a visit though.To be honest I only went there because Connor suggested it as a cool place to go to (thanks Connor!). It's in the middle of this big canyon in the middle of the desert, but is surprisingly green (I assume that has something to do with the springs...). Back in the 50's and 60's Palms Springs was the most chi-chi place to spend time in, if you had plenty of money and didn't need to work too much. Frank Sinatra and his rat pack particularly liked it, possibly because the law was never enforced too hard if you were nice, had blue eyes and could sing My Way.
Did the whole desert-stay for the next couple of days, which was a bit full-on due to the stupidly hot weather. If I had to guess I'd say it was somewhere in the mid 40's and let me tell you, that's hot! Add to that the fact that everybody drives around there, and there is very little shade, and you will agree that doing the four hour Joshua Tree excursion was something I should have skipped.