Palm Springs can be a frustrating place to find a place to stay, with more than half a dozen small towns that are each listed separately in some reservation websites and - even worse - a whole bunch of really cute properties that only accept reservations by telephone or e-mail. To help you make sense of it all and find the place that best for you, try our guide to finding a place to stay in Palm Springs.

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I recently took a day-long drive out of Palm Springs, heading south into the Coachella Valley. If you look at it on a map, you might not think there's much to see, in fact, if I'd seen just one of the many unusual sights I encountered that day, it would have been interesting enough, but with a whole handful of them, it made for a very fun day.

You can see some of the highlights in our Coachella Valley photo tour.

In a fit of exuberance, watercolor artist Francis McComas once declared Point Lobos "the greatest meeting of land and water in the world," an often-repeated opinion of the small point of land jutting into the Pacific Ocean just south of Carmel, California. We've had pictures of it for a long time, but they just didn't measure up. It took four trips over four months to find the perfect day, but we finally managed to get some images that better reflect its beauty. Take a photo tour of Point Lobos to see what you think.

However, as I told a friend yesterday, I can only aspire to creating images of Point Lobos as beautiful as the ones Edward Weston made in the 1930s.

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