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Desert Lady Diaries

Jun 26, 2018

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...


Jun 19, 2018

 

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...


Jun 12, 2018

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...


Jun 5, 2018

 

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...