Death Valley

We left Vegas after stopping back in at an outlet store so that Tony could buy a new bag as he now has too much stuff to fit into the bags we had already bought. - He will argue that I have bought all the stuff, but mine still fits in the same bags so you tell me who the shopaholic is!

We headed on out to Death Valley, took a wrong turn, turned around and were on track again - A little slip in the GPS (my boyfriend). Once we got there, it was exactly like the National geographic show I had watched on it, except in real life, there are heaps of tourists and long drop toilets.

The salt plains were very cool and the valley itself was so barren. The temperature has dropped here and it is abnormally cold for this time of year, so we were not hit with the sweltering heat ( I guess that is a bonus? but normally a part of the whole experience)

The valley is 282 feet below sea level, you can camp in the Valley but in summer it can get up to 57 degrees Celsius (134 degrees Fahrenheit) So I'm thinking camping is not the best idea in the world in the middle of summer.

We left death valley and headed for a small town called Beatty to stay the night. They still allow smoking inside here, so we had a really hard time finding somewhere to eat, and had to put up with the mild stench of cigarettes.



Off to Yosemite now...