With the Yuma run over with, I settled into my Palm Desert hotel for the night. I thought I'd be able to see Jackie Chan in "80 Days" but the movie was playing at really odd times. I ended up seeing the Stepford Wives and it turned out to be surprisingly good! Yes, there are a couple of moments where stuff doesn't make sense at all, it was just done to be cool but that's all of 3 minutes of screen time. I found the movie funny, entertaining, and kind of scary when I realized that most of the women in Rancho Mirage/Palm Desert looked like the Stepford women! I guess it is the plastic surgery/spa center of California!
Innsbruck - here despite it never being on my to-see list
First the backstory. In about a week I'll be boarding a cruise ship (this year's Cruise Trek) in Romania. When I booked the flight many months ago, I had a brilliant idea to go in a week early to Vienna and use it as a base to spend a few nights each in Albania and Bosnia. Fast forward to 6 weeks ago and the Covid restrictions, flight schedules, and hotel prices made me give up. Changing the flight to Vienna would result in penalties and possibly fare increases so I made the best of it and thought, where can I go in Austria where I've never been? Innsbruck, hmm. Can I get a free flight from Vienna? Yes! Can I get a free hotel room? Yes. Check! The city is picture perfect though. Nestled in a valley between two mountain ranges, it's green, colorful, and everything you could want a place to be when the purpose is total work decompression. No major sightseeing, no expectations. You, a city and a view. It's walkable and small. You've got to look up, left and right, ...
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