🔊🔛 Initial observations of #PalmDesert, CA is that it’s just an affluent suburb, with many big box chain stores and strip malls off the highway that cuts through the city—save for the desert scenery and dry weather that’s the big draw for the people who live and retire there. It’s impossible to ignore the magnificent Santa Rosa Mountains that tower over the suburban sprawl, and I experienced them up and close on a suggested four-mile loop hike along the iconic “Bump and Grind Trail.” (It’s sup