Palm Springs Real Estate Blog

Southern California desert life is as exciting as it is beautiful, and if you are considering making the jump to an adult planned residential community in the desert, Trilogy at La Quinta is just what you need. Located at the bottom of Coral Mountain in one of the prettiest areas of Palm Springs, Trilogy offers a truly luxurious setting for the ultimate in gracious living. The climate of Trilogy is warm and bright throughout the year making it easy and fun for year round outside activities, of which Trilogy and the surrounding area offer no end to. Trilogy offers the ultimate in adult community desert living.

Warm climate and warm people make Trilogy an alluring option to desert living. You will find the community at Trilogy to be friendly, active and very passionate about making the living at Trilogy the best it can possible be. This positive energy is one of the most attractive attributes to the community and what keeps it so alive. There is no end to the possibilities of things to do at Trilogy. Trilogy Golf is always fun and the course is just beautiful. There is truly something for everyone. There are arts, culture, hiking, sports everything you can imagine. These activities all center around the club, where residents commune to enjoy each other’s company and plan out new adventures.

The homes at Trilogy are beautiful and varied to meet the needs and desires of everyone. The idea is to create the specific beauty as interpreted by the owner. All homes regardless of size are quality built and beautiful to behold. Feng Shui is standard in all homes to help create and maintain balance in your life. All this positive energy works to create the ultimate in serenity and happy living. The use of space in all Trilogy homes will amaze you and most homes are equipped with casitas for visiting guests. Accommodating all lifestyles is the goal of Trilogy.

Trilogy at La Quinta in Palm Springs offers truly gracious and active living in a beautiful warm and bright desert setting. There are many activities beyond the community nearby that include tennis and golf at your choice of clubs. It’s certain that you can always find fun exciting activities to engage in at Trilogy. Trilogy offers everything a planned adult residential community should offer; beauty, peace, activity and good friends. Desert living has never been so fulfilling for your body and soul. Start living life well at Trilogy.

Brought into existence 15 years ago by social interaction between a small number of people joined by their enthusiasm for cars, the Palm Springs Cruisin Association has grown from a small group to well over 100 club members and as many as 125 cars on average, at each monthly cruise. Started by Bob Hunt and Loren Orcutt as a means for connecting with other car enthusiasts, this association has grown in both size and reputation with their charitable fund raising activities. Known mainly for their annual benefits for the Bread of Life and Dr. Sebastian George Cancer Foundation charities, this group excels in their enthusiasm for helping mankind and their own community by hosting fund raisers geared at raising money for a number of valid causes.

The group activity schedule includes a monthly cruise night located on the corner of Calle Encilla and Amado at the exotic Spa Resort Casino gracing downtown Palm Springs. For a night of fun, friends, and an enjoyable atmosphere, these cruises are normally scheduled for the first Saturday of each month from September to June. Welcoming everyone and anyone, the collection of over 150 spectacular cars ranging from hot rods to corvettes, street rods to classic cars, and many more are available for free viewing, accompanied by a variety of activities that include the entire family.

Kids and adults alike are welcome to try their luck in the slot car racing, coloring and model car contests, and for those risky enthusiasts, a hula hoop contest lures contestants with the promise of fun and laughter. Interspersed between the entertainments that accompanies each cruise night are 50/50 drawings and a raffle, giving you a chance to help support the clubs endeavors to aid their fellow man.

A pit stop at their spectacular website gives you a variety of options to choose from through a list of click-able links that make user navigation a breeze. Leaving the competition in the dust, the club devotes an entire page to explaining their purpose driven continuity of a tradition started fifteen years ago, and provides numerous links for additional information or help, depending on your interest. The list of links includes, but is not limited to Hot Rod Hotline, Palm Springs Corvette Club, Dr. Torch Designs, and several others. For you enthusiasts looking for a sister site that offers more thrills, activities, and cars, the links page is designed entirely with you in mind.

Race over to the Members Rides page for a glimpse of the club members and their individual choices of motor masterpieces. Sporting a broad range of makes and models spanning a wide selection of the early years, these vehicles have been lovingly cared for, restored, and kept in mint condition with a meticulous dedication that can only be the result of being a die hard car enthusiast.

Even if you have no understanding of cars, attending one of these amazing events is a must-do, so grab your friends and family, visit the website for the Palm Springs Cruisin Association and get the date for the next monthly cruise night and become a part of something big, fun, and unforgettable.

If you are interested in crusin around Palm Springs and looking at some Real Estate, give us a call. We would be glad to help!

Indian Wells, located in the Palm Springs area between La Quinta and Palm Desert, is home to one of the Nine Masters Series tennis tournaments. Most often referred to as the Indian Wells Masters is the Pacific Life Open tennis tournament. This tournament is not only one of the most notorious, but also one of the most attended here inIndian Wells.

The Pacific Life Open plays against an awe inspiring view of the mountains in the background and the beautiful desert as the sanctuary. Palm trees are found everywhere, giving you an uninhibited view of southern California during an appealing season. With temperatures reaching the 90’s easily, the tennis tournament offers a change from the usual entertainment to be found in Indian Wells at the surrounding fabulous four star resorts and spas.Being hosted during the second and third week of March, the 10th - the 23rd, this tournament boasts some of the top names in tennis as active competitors in the 16,100 seat Indian Wells Tennis Gardens.

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With the myriad of astounding architectural designs used in and around Palm Springs, it is obvious that some of the most notorious architects have lived or designed there. One of the more noteworthy ones being William Krisel, AIA of the firm Palm & Krisel which began it’s reign in 1924. Since 1954 William Krisel has been invariably building his fame and notoriety, literally, as a landscape architect and winning the hearts of many with his intriguing designs that have lasted over a duration of time. Some of his more popular designs have been used world wide as models for studies and instruction in the intricacies of modern architecture.

Over the course of his fifty-one year career, he is personally responsible for having designed well over thirty thousand domestic units in and around the Southern half of California. This incredible career began when he responded to an invitation from a close friend to design some houses in modern style which were to be named Royal Desert Palms. These distinguished homes are now referred to as Twin Palms due to the pair of Palm trees that accompanied each home. His resume contains such professionally designed buildings such as the Las Palmas Estates, the Sandpiper condominiums in Indian Wells and Palm Desert as well as numerous others. His reputation was rightly earned and it’s reach was far.

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