Death Valley

Today we drove west from Beatty on Hwy 374.  We stopped at Rhyolite on the way.  In the early 1900s it had a population of 10000.  Fifteen years later, it was deserted.  Only a few broken buildings remain.

Then it was up over the pass, into California, and into Death Valley National Park.  It was warm. I checked at the Furnace Creek Visitor Center and it was 103.  Looking at the weather for South Lake Tahoe, I see 49 for a high on Sunday.  Are we really going there?

Death Valley is awesome !  Huge,  Magnificent.  Dry.  Hot.  ( today it was 103 at 2pm  at Furnace Creek.  We found a great road called the Twenty Mule Team Road that gave us a one-way passage through some harsh but beautiful hills.  It was a good day.