While covering the Stagecoach Music Festival, I decided I needed a break one morning and did a Mecca Hills Wilderness day hike. The initial plan was to visit Joshua Tree National Park, and I put a declaration on my Facebook page that I was going to Joshua Tree. I got a message from a fellow [...]
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Joshua Tree yucca plant along a gravel road
Joshua Tree National Park is known and named for the Joshua tree, but here is a picture of a Joshua Tree yucca plant. Another plant that gives this beautiful stark desert park in Southern California its cool identity is the yucca plant. I wonder if they ever considered calling it Yucca Plant National Park. Here [...]
Cinco de mayo talavera piece in Puebla
Today is Cinco de Mayo where people celebrate Mexico‘s victory over France in 1862 at the Battle of Puebla. Today is the 151st anniversary of the battle. Last year I was in Puebla in June. We toured a factory that made beautiful talavera ceramics. This beautiful piece was made to commemorate the battle. TT The [...]
Sleeping Bear Dunes beach aerial shot
Along the Empire Dunes Trail in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is a great overlook of the Empire Dunes and this beach below along Lake Michigan. The trail is just outside the small town of Empire, Michigan and the trail is less than a mile to this fabulous overlook of the lake and the dunes, [...]
Mecca Hills Wilderness Area camping
While exploring the Southern California desert one morning, I came across a couple of people out in the Mecca Hills Wilderness Area camping. I was immediately jealous as I only had a short time to hike in the canyon. Not only is camping allowed in the area, but it is free, and it is possible [...]
Joshua Tree golden desert will lure me back
On a recent trip to Stagecoach Music Festival, I had a free morning to experience the outdoor possibilities adjacent to Palm Springs. I went for a four mile hike up a canyon through a slot canyon to a beautiful overlook in the Mecca Hills Wilderness Area. With not much time left before Stagecoach began its [...]
Stagecoach Music Festival and the Toyota 2014 4Runner Reveal
Thanks to Toyota, I was invited to Stagecoach Music Festival as a guest to experience the country music festival and the Toyota 2014 4Runner Reveal. I was flown to Los Angeles Airport and greeted with a 2013 version of the Toyota 4Runner and given the keys to drive it into the desert to Palm Springs. [...]
Haunted Windchimes prove Stagecoach is about the music
Saying Stagecoach Music Festival is all about the music sounds like the most obvious statement ever. The only pronouncement more clear is question one of a geometry problem: it is a given. For me the Haunted Windchimes proved the self evident. There are many reasons to come to a music festival. The main motivation can [...]
Stagecoach four wheeling with Toyota
Stagecoach Music Festival offers more than just great country music. Thanks to Toyota’s world of wonders tent, you can find a unique adventure with the Toyota drive center. They have a mock off road course set up, and you can test out your choice of Toyota four wheeled trucks. Sometimes on the way to [...]
A peaceful easy feeling with Toyota and Stagecoach
I am very excited to announce that thanks to Toyota I have been invited to next week’s Stagecoach Music Festival in Palm Springs, California. You can see the awesome list of musicians below. I for one am really excited to see the dude himself, Jeff Bridges. #spon: Content and/or other value provided by our partner, [...]
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