{"id":1748,"date":"2003-04-03T19:16:17","date_gmt":"2003-04-04T02:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=1748"},"modified":"2018-02-28T11:57:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T19:57:26","slug":"palm-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2003\/04\/03\/palm-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"Palm Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We spent a wonderful warm time in Palm Desert visiting Aviva’s mother and her friend Dave. We did a lot of things (in addition to laying out in the morning sun).<\/p>\n

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We went to the Palm Springs Desert Museum; they have a number of Morris Grave’s images which Aviva really likes. They also have a Chihuly and a neat pair of red lenses in the upstairs, perminent exhibit.<\/p>\n

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A detail of the Chihuly glass piece<\/span><\/td>\nAviva through one of the red lenses<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

We also went to the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway. There are two cars that each hold 80 + 1 people. It traverses two and a half miles with a vertical climb of over a mile – it is the second longest tramway in the world. We also took a long hike (about three-quarters of a mile) around the Mountain Station; it required quite a climb down and back up on a spiralling walkway. I took some panoramic shots of the valley floor from the Mountain Station and from our ride home.<\/p>\n

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Aviva and Bob at over 8000 feet!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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The view up from beside the tram<\/span><\/td>\nThat’s the road home from Idllwyld- it twists all over the hillside<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

We also went to Idllwyld, a small art community in the mountains. We took Highway 74; it twists and turns through the mountains!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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We spent a wonderful warm time in Palm Desert visiting Aviva’s mother and her friend Dave. We did a lot of things (in addition to laying out in the morning sun). We went to the Palm Springs Desert Museum; they have a number of Morris Grave’s images which Aviva really likes. They also have a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t