Old Town La Quinta

Nov 14/2018  Weather  sunny, 77 and 55 at night.  Everyday is a picture perfect day here.   
We were heading out to get on our bike when we noticed we had a friend running around and around the coach.  Roadrunner!!!  He is hilarious.  We see him everyday.  He is quite bold and doesn't mind telling us what he thinks.  But take a step towards him and can he ever run!

Roadrunners can fly but they prefer to run down their prey

Next to Indio is La Quinta which is known as a resort city.    The old downtown section is beautifully kept.  Flowers, an old square, pretty spanish style architecture. 

our bike parked in old La Quinta

Nice restaurants, walk around shopping in boutique stores and we found a very unusual ice cream store too.

Apple slices on a pizza - Napa Valley

Everyone asks if you have been to Stuft's; so we gotta go.  It is restaurant where you can create just about any kind of fire oven pizza you can think of or have one of the chef's gourmet combos.  They have a Napa Valley creation that has Canadian bacon, applewood bacon, carmelized onions, brie cheese, mozarella cheese, apples, mango sauce.  Yes apple slices, isn't that cool?  Oh it is so yummy.  Billy got the Maui.  We were going to share but I think he only had one piece of my Napa Valley..... It was so different. 

some fun art work

After we walked around town checking out the store fronts we just had to double back to get some liquid nitrogen infused ice cream.  Never heard of it before.  Billy is quite familiar with liquid nitrogen at the Dr.'s office.  Our curiousity had us inside ordering a salted caramel and strawberry cheesecake to go.  They make the ice cream while you wait.  -320 f makes it fresh and fast and no ice build up.  Quite good.  It was not smoking anymore when we got our cup of ice cream to go; all safe to eat. 

nitro infused ice cream  = see the steam , it froze right before our eyes

Quite happy and stuffed to say the least.  What a beautiful town square and the mountains in the background.  It looks like a postcard doesn't it?

walking past the town square in old town La Quinta

Hot Rods at La Quinta

Jan 31/2015 Saturday and Sunny 80 and 58 at night.   The paint jobs on these cars are shining brightly.  Men and their toys :)

custom '40 Ford - wild looking

9th annual Hot Rod and Custom Car show sponsored by the La Quinta Chamber of Commerce.   Well the admission price is right (free) so we stopped to take a look.

Maybe this would make a cool new "tow vehicle" for us?

For years my Dad had a '34 Ford Coupe Hot Rod that he loved to drive, but in Ontario there were not that many around.   We were stunned how many Ford Coupes in that vintage 1930's we saw in this small show - about a half a dozen.   Nice!  And some other wild looking modified custom cars too.

And then there is my crazy husband who is always drawn to old station wagons,,,, land yachts?  When he was raising little kids in the 70's and 80's he had a Buick Estate wagon with the wood grain on the doors....  Yes you know exactly the picture in your mind of those cars right?  So guess where I find him ?  Eyeing up this beautiful restored and customized Buick wagon.

Too bad it did not have the wood grain,,,, or we would have to get this one.....