Palm Desert’s Golf Cart Parade and Keedy’s Fountain and Grill

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A great way to appreciate the golden years if you aren’t already there is wiling away a late October weekend in Palm Desert.

The temperature languors in the 90s, the vibe is easy and slow, and the golf carts ditch the green and head down El Paseo in the Palm Desert Golf Cart Parade.  

It seems half the town pimps out their rides with all manner of decor, a Rose Parade with pint-sized floats.  The elements combine for a strange alchemy of small-town gathering and golf carts freshly victimized by hard-core glue gun-wielding crafters after a half-price sale at Michael’s. 

That’s how the elderly roll in Palm Desert.

This year the parade falls on October 26, so there’s time to book a room (maybe something old school like The Ingleside Inn in Palm Springs).   Fuel up before the parade with breakfast at a place Gramps would love — and probably even visited as a teen — Keedy’s Fountain and Grill in Palm Desert.  A time capsule of a diner, nothing much has changed since 1957 — and the place is the stronger for it.  Join the clientele of all ages (including regulars who have logged decades of daily meals at the original yellow Formica counter) for a malt in a frosty silver cup and a $5 “Keedy’s Fix” burger.

What better way to indulge the senior citizen who lives inside of you, longing to complain about joint pain and aspiring for a 6 p.m. bedtime ? 

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