Palm Springs, CA. Heather and I came down here for the wedding of my longtime friend Eric, a college friend and roommate. The wedding was great, we had a really enjoyable time.
On Saturday morning (I'm writing this Sunday evening), Heather and I ran 7.5 together, and then I did 6.5 on my own. We cruised through the neighborhood very close to our hotel and then found a trail behind the Palm Springs Museum of Art and climbed probably 800-900 feet before realizing that it wasn't going to get flat anytime soon and our time was better spent on the road if we wanted to avoid getting cooked on the trail without enough water. So we dropped back into the neighborhood and followed a bike path that took us through a neighborhood with the most amazing collection of mid-century modern homes that I have ever seen. I understand that this architecture is not everyone's thing . . . many people prefer "homier" styles. But man, I just go nuts over desert modernism. Later in the day we went back to the museum and looked at an exhibit of photos by Julius Shulman--one of the master's of modern architectural photography. Some of his best work is in Palm Springs. Here are a couple of examples:
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