Desert Time

We are on the road!

Since landing in Los Angeles last Thursday, I have traveled 1311.66 km (or 815 miles)!
Coast, desert, mountains and lakes have all flashed by my window in the last few days.

Our first day on the road got us to Death Valley. Traveling in from the coast, we watched the landscape become drier and drier as we got further inland. Death Valley's mountain walls loomed out in front of us while a sand storm (a small one) whipped around the car.
Up, up and over the mountain rim, and then down, down, down into the valley that was once an ocean bed, the lowest point in North America at 86m below sea level.

We spent the night camping, not quite as isolated as one might hope, I guess Death Valley is a bit of an RV getaway! But beautiful surrounds nonetheless.
At dawn we headed to the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes to watch the sunrise, then out to Zabriskie Point.

 (Look closely at the Zabriskie Point picture to see tiny little figures walking along one of the ridges! Gives some perspective...)

A quick stop really, but we had places to be and more to see, so out of Death Valley we zoomed!