A trip
to Pappy & Harriet's to see the
band Gram Rabbit was Barbie's first
visit to the desert. From then, she would travel back and forth
between the desert and a corporate job in Long Beach - that's a
long ride for the love of the desert.
After
a medical diagnosis in 2008, Barbie Sommars sought alternative
methods...
Sue's
first experience with the desert was accompanying her husband,
Pete, to a job interview in 29 Palms for a teaching position in
1957. At first blush, Sue was not impressed with the place,
sitting under an elm tree in the June desert heat and then moving
from Texas, in the middle of August, with their
three...
In the
60's Constance and a friend left school, got to work and put away
their money, eventually taking a cruise ship from their native
Canada to England, where Constance began six years of world travel.
Here first connections with desert were in Afghanistan and
Iran.
Constance arrived in California, eventually
making...
A
native New Yorker, Ivy
Pochoda has discovered the pull of the desert.
After moving to LA, she'd heard folks talk about going to the
desert. Eventually she took a trip to Palm Springs and,
though nice, wasn't really the experience she was looking for. The
second trip she booked a vacation rental 'near Joshua
Tree...