Visitors to Los Angeles curious to join locals on one of their favorite weekend getaways will find this famous resort city in the desert a two-hour drive south (actually the best known of a cluster of several cities). Palm Springs’ beginnings as a resort (based largely on its “healthful” climate and hot springs) stretch back to the early 20th century, and as the Hollywood film industry got going in the 1920s, it also became the hideaway of the stars as well as writers and artists (and to some extent remains so; one of them, TV entertainer Sony Bono, was even elected mayor). Today the local resort scene is very... keep reading