FYI, I think Palms to Pines is a gorgeous route, and I've driven it maybe 100 times between Palm Desert and Anza down to Aguanga and then Temecula. But I also had the only serious wreck of my life on it, in August of 2001, a combination of fresh new asphalt, 110 degree air temperature, and a large rock in the middle of the road around a blind turn combined with my going too fast for the conditions, resulted in my swerving to avoid the rock, loosing traction as the fresh asphalt tore away from the road bed, and I put my right-side wheels just onto the steep uphill side of the road, and I flipped my car over going something like 55-60 MPH. Fortunately, I was not seriously injured, but my car was totaled and the guys that cut me out of it with the Jaws were astonished that my injuries were as minor as they actually were (a mild concussion and some broken glass in my forehead from hitting the windshield - actually it was the other way around, the windshield hit me in the head when the car landed on it's roof and flattened the front of the roof on a straight line to the rear roof pillars). My lap/shoulder belt probably saved my life, or at a minimum, from quite serious injury.