Thursday 3/29/2012
We left Zabriskie Point in Death Valley and continued down the road. |
Joe and I wonder what the white round object was just beyond rock wall next to the road. |
A pretty view along the road. |
Just down the road from Zabriskie Point is Furnace Creek Inn. |
Looks like a very nice place to stay if you don't have a home on wheels. |
At the T in the road we turned south. |
We headed for Artist Dr. We stopped at Golden Canyon, which had a trail. |
Because we had so much else to see, we continued down the road. |
Our next stop. |
Artist Drive |
It's much prettier with the naked eye! |
Because it was so cloudy, my pictures don't show the true colors. |
A stopping point. |
A short trail to a viewing spot. |
View down into the valley. You can see the northern edges of the salt flats from here. |
Just a shot to show you we did get a little exercise climbing the hill from our car! |
We continued Artist Dr. |
More salt flat views. |
The drive is a one way road, with two very deep drops. |
We parked the car here and also walked up closer. |
At this stop, I climbed to the top of a small ridge. A dry stream bed below. |
Looking down to the dry stream bed. |
And looking further down still! |
Joe had gone to the restroom, while I had climbed up to the top of this ridge. I yelled down to him that if you are afraid of heights, this one is not one to climb. |
God's painting for us all. He loves art as well! |
I get my self in trouble sometimes, because going up for me is easy. It's coming down that makes me think twice about what I just climbed up. It was much scarier coming down the ridge. |
Back in the car and down the road we go. |
Lots of tight turns, |
windy, |
downward, |
and another very tight turn, |
but beautiful, |
and worth the drive. |
I did say curvy didn't I . I don't think you'd want to drive a motor home or anything to long on this drive. |
I don't want to bore you with so many pictures, |
but I do like to take you on the drive with us. |
If you never make it to Death Valley, |
at least you have can say you have seen it somewhat in pictures turn by turn. |
I really did leave out a ton of turns. |
I like to put in a lot of pictures, because if I never get back to my adventures, I can come back some day through my blogs. |
I delete all my pictures after I post them to the blog. |
We finished Artist Dr., and head south toward Badwater. |
Next stop for us and next blog for you is Badwater. |
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