Palm Springs Areal Tram Our morning started long before the sun was up.  Having jet lag from just arriving in Los Angeles the day before from the midwest had us up around 4:00 am wondering what to do.  My daughter Jayne and I were on a trip to California for a summer adventure together.  This was a nice treat to spend a full week with just one on one time.  This day we decided to head south to Joshua Tree National Park as the days highlight and decided on the way past that we couldn't just drive by this potential side trip…

Manzanar War Relocation Center Manzanar War Relocation Camp is a good place to stop and explore your way. Manzanar was a Japanese American internment camp located in the Owens Valley of California, USA. The camp was in operation from 1942 to 1945, during World War II, and was one of ten internment camps where Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated and incarcerated by the US government.The decision to establish internment camps was made by President Franklin D. Roosevelt after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. The government claimed that Japanese Americans, even those who were born in the…