Old Boots, New Dust

Desert X wasn’t the main reason for my Palm Springs trip a couple of weeks ago—the real draw was the rodeo.

[On a side note, maybe this is how the blog evolves from here on out: less of a daily diary or travelogue, and more of a place to look back on recent events.]

Back in the day - something old posts here can definitely confirm - I was hitting the rodeo circuit once a month, sometimes even more. Some of those rodeos don’t exist anymore, and others, like the one in Palm Springs, are working to make a comeback.

While it’s not as big as it used to be, the Palm Springs rodeo still made for a great weekend. Even better, one of my longtime rodeo friends who lives in Palm Springs (and originally wasn’t going to make it) had a change of plans, and we ended up spending most of Saturday together. Between that and seeing plenty of familiar faces from the old days, it felt like a real homecoming.

Definitely worth the trip.