Somewhere on a desert highway

Leggy and I went to Death Valley and around the Mojave and Yosemite area last weekend. Pictures and narration are in the works, but for now...here are a few of our adventures in motion. It's a little long, but I couldn't resist the 360 panoramas. We went to the flattest place on the planet, The Racetrack (home of sailing stones); we found old miner's clothing and eating utensils and went in half a dozen mines (tailing wheels and stamp mills included!); we spotted coyotes, tarantulas, and rabbits; we ate cold supper, and we saw Ubehebe crater. We also dabbled in Darwin and Cerro Gordo...both of which deserve a return trip. Varney rarely leads us astray, but this time we found stuff that I'm sure Varney doesn't even know about.



This trip only increased my obsession with buying waterless property to call my own. I even have the Cerro Gordo caretaker's number programmed into my phone.

Skidoo!

Skidoo (inside Death Valley National Park) is down one of the longest, bumpiest dirt roads I've ever driven on. We didn't think we'd ever get there. The town site is gone, but the stamp mill and several blocked off adits still remain. Ghosttowns.com has a great Skidoo spread...but I can't get a direct link. Click the map, then CA, then Inyo, then Skidoo.