In the BaysBus we have a GPS system that we researched and had installed into the dashboard. It was supposed to be the best one to keep an RV out of a tight squeeze or dangerous situation. We also have a Good Sam GPS that rests on the top of the dashboard because we have learned not to trust the first one. As a back up, I always load our destination into the GPS in my smartphone, which doesn't "know" we are driving an RV and not a car. We study paper maps before we leave each travel day. Then, when the GPS systems have a difference of opinion, we vote. Today we set all the machines and the two that know RV routes wanted us to take one route, but the smartphone GPS wanted us to take the route we had decided was best on the paper map. Oooops! We decided to go with the RV GPS systems. OMG!! We ended up on a two lane road over the mountains from Temecula to Indio. It was very slow and very scary. We had to pull over on every turn out so people could pass us. Lesson learned. Trust our instincts!
We saw a formation of five small prop planes flying over the mountains. They looked like they were practicing for something. We also passed a larger-than-life metal sculpture of a stagecoach and horses about an hour before we arrived. The field behind it was full of hundreds of metal sculptures on the same grand scale but we only got a glimpse as we passed by too quickly to get a picture.
Palm Desert was having a Wildflower Festival. We saw many different flowers as we crossed the desert. I had read that many of them were making a rare showing because of a little rain that had fallen here recently.
We are staying at Indian Wells Carefree RV Park in Indio. It is an older park with many permanent residents but the spaces are very large and it is a clean, pleasant place. The temperature today was about 80 and will be about the same after the next two days, which will be cooler. We plan on staying 6 nights.
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