Yeah, I usually write about Europe. But today we’re in Palm Springs. The weather is fabulous; we ate lunch outside and were perfectly comfortable in shirt sleeves (and pants, of course, and the uber-obligatory shoes…)
We’re not staying in a hotel; we’re in a vacation rental condo. There’s lots of ‘em here in Palm Springs. You can’t launch a golf ball into the air without hitting a condo complex or a palm tree.
Staying at a vacation rental condo means I can get a cup of coffee as soon as I get up. I can reach into the stocked refrigerator and take out an egg or a bottle of champagne and do whatever I want with either. I can call anywhere I want on the phone without incurring additional charges. I can type into this blog using the supplied wireless broadband signal and I don’t have to worry about the maid looking longingly at my computer when I go out for lunch. Life is good.
Tonight we’ll stroll the downtown streets, which will be closed off to traffic for the legendary Palm Springs weekly market. The museum is free this evening as well.
It’s not so expensive as you might think to enjoy the winter good life in a place where the sun is out a healthy percentage of the year. Scuttlebutt over lunch included golf instead of snow shoveling, a good enough reason to come here and experience the winter sun for yourself.
I just wish the rat pack were still around. It would be nice to see Dean Martin sing “Tangerine, you stained my gabardine…” once again.
But did you know you could rent the house that Henry Mancini used as his Palm Springs playground?
Yeah, your living room in The Mesa Estate is right over there to the left. Be sure you hire someone in a tux to throw another log on the fire. You wouldn’t want to do that yourself. How degrading! (Thinking like you think the rich think is fun, I can tell you! You should try it!)
Kidding aside, why not do something out of the ordinary on your vacation? Live like Henry Mancini. He wouldn’t have stayed at the Motel 6. (If he did, he’d probably have registered as Enrico Nicola Mancini, his real name, so he could be incognito.)
There are condos in all price ranges in Vacapedia’s Palm Springs Rental Listings.
Are you humming “Moon River” yet?
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