Desert Living
April 2008

Excerpt:
“I guess as far as this deal, we planned on X amount of dollars to put into it. It ended up more than that, but, you know, it always does. So there wasn't any big, huge surprise.” Dave Scharf likes to tell it like it is. He speaks with the ease of a seasoned rancher who knows exactly what he's doing. And he knows he knows. There's more than cowboy confidence in Scharf, owner of the recently renovated Horizon Hotel in Palm Springs, CA. Scharf — who calls Oregon home — has learned to make himself at home in the desert and he's cut himself a little slice of heaven with this particular resort.