Right now I am sittingin a coffeeshop on the Las Vegas strip,
Marina and I left the area of Lone Pine California a few days back to travel through Death Valley.
One of my goals for our time in Death Valley was to travel to the racetrack playa, an area in remote region of the Death Valley NP ( though honestly it all seems pretty remote). We did our best to make the trip out to the playa, but the route requires about 2 hours on some pretty rough undeveloped gravel [that ends up meaning big rocks] road. We made traveled a solid hour through the desert on this gravel road before it just became to much for my poor old car… Someday I’ll come back with a truck.
For a plan B we traveled back out to the main road and pushed our way closer to the heart of death valley. We spent the night in a very desolate area near the panamint valley. The next day we traveled through death valley. I still have yet to get to processing any of the images from the past week. They should be coming down the pipe any time this next week.
After looking at the map we saw that it was only 85 miles to Vegas, a quick hotel search showed a few listings for incredibly cheap… like 16 bucks. Marina and I stepped it up and picked up a nice room on the 27 floor of the flamingo with an incredible view of the strip. Spent all night walking through the resorts on the strip.
We have one more night in Las Vegas, then tomorrow we should be headed south toward Arizona