Death Valley feels more like the Middle East than the eastern part of California. The mountains surrounding it made me feel like wandering through the desert for 40 years. Scotty's Castle (above) is an amazing feat of architecture and engineering given the harsh landscape.
Us standing in the salt flats at Badwater Basin, about 282 feet below sea level. There's a metal scraper available when you leave so you can scrape all the salt off your shoes.
The white path in Badwater is all salt.
We went off-roading through Titus Canyon, a 27 mile drive that allows you to drive through a Grand Canyon-like scenery in your own car. That's our little Explorer there at the bottom for a point of reference.
This coyote chased us as we left Scotty's Castle. (Scotty's Castle is similar to Hearst Castle in architecture and history, but it's a lot smaller.) People feed the coyotes, so they're unafraid of humans. He came right up to the car. Another example of what we humans do to wild animals: turn them into beggars. It made me sad.
Rhyolite, Nevada. A ghost town with some of the most well-preserved buildings we had ever seen.
Outside Rhyolite there is a series of art installations that, in our opinion, negate the power of the old ghost town by providing a surreal glimpse of modern art. But the Miner and Penguin piece made us chuckle.
The white path in Badwater is all salt.
We went off-roading through Titus Canyon, a 27 mile drive that allows you to drive through a Grand Canyon-like scenery in your own car. That's our little Explorer there at the bottom for a point of reference.
This coyote chased us as we left Scotty's Castle. (Scotty's Castle is similar to Hearst Castle in architecture and history, but it's a lot smaller.) People feed the coyotes, so they're unafraid of humans. He came right up to the car. Another example of what we humans do to wild animals: turn them into beggars. It made me sad.
Rhyolite, Nevada. A ghost town with some of the most well-preserved buildings we had ever seen.
Outside Rhyolite there is a series of art installations that, in our opinion, negate the power of the old ghost town by providing a surreal glimpse of modern art. But the Miner and Penguin piece made us chuckle.
2 comments:
it must have been tempting not to buy that old mercantile building...what the heck is mercantile anyway?
Transcendentalism.
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