The nearest “major” destination is Joshua Tree National Park, roughly 10 miles due east, though the city is also 27 miles north of Palm Springs and 55 miles east of San Bernardino.Ĭertainly one could argue there is a peculiar beauty to Yucca Valley’s desert landscape, in all its untamed natural glory. Located deep in California’s San Bernardino County, Yucca Valley is a town of 20,000 people. This was roughly a year before the coronavirus pandemic sent desert home prices soaring, so it’s a very good bet the property is now worth significantly more than that 2019 number. The trust quietly acquired the six-acre estate in early 2019, paying $570,000. And while Heard’s name does not appear on the deed, research turns up multiple clues that all point to one particular property, a house currently owned by a mysterious trust with clear links to Heard. Amber Heard, the glamorous Hollywood film actress who once dated Elon Musk, and who during her 2015-2017 marriage to Johnny Depp shared a vast portfolio of lavish homes around the world, now mainly resides in Yucca Valley - a somewhat unheralded town in California’s Mojave Desert, 120 miles east of Los Angeles.ĭirt was eager to learn more about the Yucca Valley digs. After confirming her full name is indeed Amber Laura Heard, the “Aquaman” star revealed to the general public that she currently resides in Yucca Valley, California. Heard defamation trial, perhaps one of the most unexpected tidbits was dropped during the very first few seconds of Amber Heard’s opening testimony.

Along the way he and his family learn what it means to be a neighbor, a member of a community, and a global citizen, how to treat others with empathy and understanding as they try to carve out a place in this world.Of all the bizarre information to emerge from the media circus that is the ongoing Depp v. Morally complex and unflinching in its analysis of contemporary life and the things that keep human beings apart, Freeze tackles racism, homelessness, art, reality TV, social media, and parenting with wit and humor. What they find-spearfishing for food, renting their car to strangers, fixing and selling old furniture from the garbage depot-is that a city gives back the more you give to it. No home in the suburbs with a two-car garage, no bedroom for every child, no 24-hour Walmart.Ĭarefully researched and vividly written, French Dive chronicles the Freeze family's integration into a culture where large families aren't all treated alike. They were a family with a plan: to live differently.

They'd bought a 700-square-foot dive, an apartment in need of renovation just a couple blocks from the Mediterranean. In the fall of 2014, educators Eric and Rixa Freeze moved with their young family to Old Nice, a medieval town-within-a-city on the famed Cte d'Azur.

French Dive by Eric Freeze