The Fat Lady's singing!

Another US road trip comes to an end and there's no regrets, only good memories of four weeks of sunshine travelling through our favourite state. Today turned out to be a laid back affair, more so than had been planned. We wanted to drive the scenic forty mile route to Idyllwild, a small town in the mountains overlooking the valley, where the temperature is significantly below that in Palm Springs and where the atmosphere is distinctly different. On our previous visit we made it up there and spent the day amongst the forested streets and met some nice people. However, when we set off today, we made it to the highway 234 mountain road, climbed up it for several miles, before encountering two setbacks: (1) the highway was closed, due to a previous road washout that was in the process of being mended; and (2) a complete loss of visibility, owing to low cloud. The temperature was also decidedly low up there! Accordingly, we turned around, headed out to the mall at Rancho Mirage, where the sun was shining again!

A great trip and an old hit of the Dave Clark Five sums up our feelings ..... "Glad all over'!