Back on the road, CA 79, again headed east. The area surrounding Temecula is really pretty. The sight of green grass and trees sure looks good to us.
Before too long we are way up in the mountains again with breath-taking vistas all around.
We are now on CA 74 toward Palm Desert and Indio and Interstate 10. How do these flowers grow right out of the rock? It sure was pretty. 
That's Palm Desert way down in the background behind Don.
We sure met a lot of fancy little sports cars on this winding highway. Reminded us of a TV commercial.
Wonder why they call it Palm Desert?
After enjoying the drive through beautiful Palm Desert, La Quinta, and Indio we were finally on Interstate 10 (oh yeah). We were going to visit the Joshua Tree National Park, but found out that we were 30 miles from actually seeing a Joshua Tree, so we decided against it. I found this cool webpage instead.
Not far into Arizona, we saw a sign over the freeway that read "Bad accident ahead, be prepared to stop." I was driving, so Don pulled out the atlas to find an alternate route to Arizona City. Ah ha, there was one, so we traveled merrily on, since we had seen another big sign with nothing on it. We assumed the wreck had been cleared. You know what they say about assumptions. Two miles from our exit, traffic came to a halt. It took us over an hour to get to the exit we needed to go down to I-8.
Good friend, Dave Sutton had called to let us know about the plans for a bunch of us from Quail Run to meet at the new cafe in town, Chris', for dinner at 6:00. We pulled into the parking lot about 6:18. It was great to see everyone.
After sitting on the freeway moving an inch at a time, it seemed like we had been gone for a week. Everyone had ordered, so we sat down with them and ordered. Low and behold, our order came out first. That felt weird and we kept apologizing, but we thanked the Lord for the food and begin eating. We had a good time visiting with Oscar and Lucille who were sitting next to us.
A perfect ending to our day and our 3 days away. We had a great time and now it's time to start getting the Savannah ready for the road.
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