Flying into Palm Springs (back in the 'USSA')

As my favourite refugee from the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Yakhov Smirnoff, used to say.
VHUT AAHH COUNT$RY!
Home to the stars. Enjoying 365 days of sunshine a year, 366 on leap years.

An oasis of green grass, Tall Palms, lush golf courses nestled in a cluster of mountains (containing some of the oldest and the youngest ranges in the US of A.)

Lying on the San Andreas Fault Line. (Christ have mercy). Surrounded by some of the most ruggedly beautiful desert scenery on the North American continent.

Yakhov was right.

VHUT AAHH COUNT$RY INDEED!

Gawwddd Bless America. May she never lose her way(or good air connections to her northern neighbour)