Feisty, feminist, former First Lady. Controversial cancer conqueror. Pro-choice pacifist. Award-winning addiction advocate. There are so many wonderful words to describe the late, great Elizabeth Ann Bloomer Warren Ford. But here in the Palm Springs Valley, our Betty is best beloved for co-founding, in 1982, alongside Ambassador Leonard Firestone, The Betty Ford Center, a non-profit…
DetailsSo you tell your guests that you’re taking them to The Living Desert to feed the giraffes. The reaction is tepid at best. Everyone is distracted and chattering as they gather their gear and load into cars for the ten minute drive from Rancho Mirage to the attraction in Palm Desert. Your guests push through…
DetailsRancho Mirage is a verdant oasis located in the Palm Springs Valley on the edge of the vast California Desert. It is the last place you’d expect to find a tasting room for a northern California winery. Yet, at The River, a shopping and dining destination that some claim to be Rancho Mirage’s downtown, there…
DetailsIt is our distinct pleasure and honor to welcome a new blogger to Relax Rancho Mirage. Born in Buenos Aires, the last of five children (oops!) to a Texas High Society mother and a wealthy Argentinean businessman father, bilingual Potter was at an early age shipped off to the best boarding schools in Europe, and…
DetailsIt is our distinct pleasure and honor to welcome a new blogger to Relax Rancho Mirage. The love child of a mid-century silver screen legend whose identity has always been kept a mystery, Diana was born in Palm Springs and raised by her single mother, a cocktail waitress at the Palm Springs Racquet Club. After…
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