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This sounds like the perfect fall get a way, I'll have to work out some dates!
Count me in for 8:00 am Saturday start time. Thanks Jeff for organizing!
So this is a nudist colony? Right, in the pictures it looked like everyone was naked.
Right now as I do a headcount from these posts and phone calles for the ride on Saturday Nov. 20, we have:
Lizrdbrth
Purple People Eater
SailorJerry
Kev250r
Greenalder
Ed
Adam
and me!
The more the merrier...
What, no jimbo or ronny?
I wish I could be there but I will be in Atlanta for that week. Bad timming and will miss the group.
Ronnydog
Ok So. Cal. Tdubers, we have set the dates of November 19, 20, 21 as a ride time here in the Palm Springs / Desert Hot Springs - Joshua Tree area of the Coachella Valley.
My wife and I own Living Waters Spa (www.LivingWatersSpa.com) and we'd love to host a "stay and ride" weekend. You could come for the whole weekend and stay here at the spa OR just come for a day... If you'd like to stay overnight we'd give our Tdubers a hefty discount of 45% on room rates. And yes, you could bring your partner and they could stay at the spa while you ride! Just know that our spa is European-style: I.e. swimsuit optional. Please see our website for details about our spa.
The rides are as follows:
Friday Nov. 19: 12:00 noon: ride up one of the local canyons and enjoy the sights. This will be a great warm up ride. We hope to come back to the spa before dark and enjoy some Pizza.
Saturday Nov. 20: 8:00am ride to Berdoo Canyon. We'll see the ruins of the Berdoo Camp where in the 1930s workers on the Colorado River Aqueduct stayed while working on the Aqueduct. We'll get all the way into Joshua Tree (4,200 ft). And depending on how many have extra gas, we could spend some time exploring even more like Keys View. We'd return to the spa around 3:00pm.
Sunday Nov.21: 9:00am 9:00am ride to ????. We have so many places we can explore. We'll just see where people want to ride. Return to the spa around ???
I'll lead the rides and I'm NOT a fast rider. I'm an explorer and love to enjoy the views, etc. etc. Also, I'm not a party-n-ride person, nor is our spa a party place.
I want to really really badly but only have sunday off
If you'd like to join the ride, please give our Spa a call and ask for me (Jeff). I think we'll have a wonderful weekend with several cool rides and wonderful mineral water pools to soak our tired butts in when we are done!
Please see our Spa website for how to get here... any questions, just call me.
Our phone number is: 760-329-9988
Jeff (JS5Owner) / Living Waters Spa
Here are some pics from our last ride in June.
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***WEATHER UPDATE*** Some of you might be seeing some rain on Saturday. I can tell you from my 7 years living in the desert that we won't be getting any. If we were, it would be in the amount of 1/8 of an inch! We only get 5" per year. Weather.com shows that we only have a 10% chance (as reported on Wednesday). If you get some rain, I can also tell you that it typically stops at the pass as you drop into the Palm Springs area. Bottom line: The RIDE IS ON! But I will update on Friday. -Jeff