It’s 30 Minutes ‘til Palm Springs

Every geographic landmark offers it’s on perspective of sunset. While driving inside the National Park you can chase variations of sunsets along the backdrop of rolling peaks and bouldering pinnacles. My personal favorite sunset is at the tail end of the Black Rock hike overlooking Morongo Valley. The sun begins to set at the start of the Hi-View Trail roughly around 4pm while it sets around 4:30 as you begin to summit. It’s a short hike but the absolute only view from Joshua Tree National Park with the sun setting around San Gorgonio peak, painting a panorama of silhouetting shades of blue ridges.

From thérapie it’s 30 minutes ‘til Palm Springs. We’re located right in Old Town Yucca Valley, a 3 minute drive to Frontier Cafe. They serve Joshua Tree Coffee and I know their espresso will have me up all night, but it feels so therapeutic to have an iced americano paired with a scenic drive. Morongo Pass only takes 5 minutes where you lose service, so I have my Frank Sinatra playlist and maintain the connection between atmosphere and ambiance.

As you exit the pass, summertime sunsets and storms settle over Mount San Jacinto. desert monsoons shore over the peaks, the impenetrable heat of Palm Springs rescinding the promise of an early July shower with virga. Streaks of evaporating rainfall, rising into a haze of the last sunshine, casting the first shadow over everything Palm Springs offers. Midcentury modern events, restaurants where gathering with the ones you love are unexplainably perfect, the pool club at the Saguaro Hotel, shops fronted by bronze statues, resting on water fountains, between the walk of stars. When you get that shade from the sun, 110 degrees in Palm Springs is simply warm for the soul.

Anyway, the webstore will be up in a few days and we’ll have sunglasses.

<3 Matt