Seemed a little silly to have to pay a $20 entry fee just to blast right through the park without even stopping. But, I guess I'll file that receipt away as a toll.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Death Valley
This a place I've always wanted to see and given more time I would have at least stayed overnight. As it is, I took a little detour to see it, making what would have been an 8 drive from New Mexico to San Fran into about an 11 one, but well worth it. It was incredible. 4000 feet, down to sea level, back up to 5000 feet in just a few miles. The landscape was surreal, I don't think the pictures do it justice. Tons more pictures from the rest of the drive, along the Sierra Nevada mountains and through Yosemite. California is beautiful.
Rhyolite, Nevada
Something about a ghost town, that's what it's called on the map, that really peaks my interest. I think ever since I was a kid the mystery of a ghost town has always spoken to me. This place was pretty interesting. Not a whole there, but seeing that sign about rattlesnakes did freak me out and made me watch my step.
Monday, August 4, 2008
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Long day driving today. Not sure how many miles, but I was on the third tank of gas by the time I landed for the night. It was cool to cross the continental divide. I drove across this once before when I was 16, driving cross-country through Montana ( I believe) with my best friend Mars. It was one of the classic summer trips you can only do in high school. New Mexico is really beautiful, but it is desolate. Driving along the back roads of Oklahoma and Texas, you'd go for 15 miles or so, then slow down to go through a little town of a couple hundred then back to the ope road. In New Mexico, you go 70 miles a stretch without seeing anything but grazing cattle. There's a lot of open road in this country and wonderful to see just a sliver of it.
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