Death Valley – hottest of the hot and lowest of the lows. If you’ve been there, you know. If not….go! The colors, salt flats, dunes and badlands blow your mind. How hot? We were there in November….very pleasant.
Nice in November!
Full Moon Rise at Father Crowley’s Point Vista 
Moon rise followed by sunset
Badwater Basin
282 feet below sea level. Lowest point in North America
Steve, Marlene, Bill & Carol – friends for life! 
Bill & Carol walking the salt flats 
Badwater Basin is 282 ft below sea level 
Devil’s Golf Course, near Badwater
Hiking – a spectacular experience for my soul!
I love the crunching of boots on trails, scrambling over rocks and looking upward at the slants and folds of a geographic upheaval from eons ago. (Natural Canyon, Mosaic Canyon and Golden Canyon)
And Steve stays ground level
With friends, Bill and Carol, we trekked until forward progress was impeded by barriers (typically, one of us would urge to climb..but the other three would not follow).
Natural Bridge Canyon 
The Natural Barrier: 15 foot cliff with another behind it. 
Time to turn around
Artists Palette and the Mesquite Sand Dunes
Ahhh! Badlands of Zabriskie Point
Dantes View: The Higher You Climb…..the More That You See
Bill & Carol on Dantes Ridge 
Death Valley, population 320, covers, 5,262 square miles Average rainfall less than 2″ and storms result in sudden flooding in the valley.
” …this is the real nature of California and the secret of its fascination; this untamed, undomesticated, aloof, prehistoric landscape which relentlessly reminds the traveller of his human condition and the circumstances of his tenure upon the earth. “You are perfectly welcome,” it tells him, “during your short visit. Everything is at your disposal. Only, I must warn you, if things go wrong, don’t blame me.”
Christopher Isherwood, Exhumations
On The Road-Marlene & Steve 
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