The road was actually quite good, and soon I was in Pahrump, where I decided to let my GPS lead the way. I could look across miles of desolation to Sandy Valley. The Spring Mountains had white caps from a late season snow. So I left Bonnie Springs after a good breakfast and drove up the back way, up Hwy 160 to Pahrump. I would be staying in the attached hotel. This was perfect territory for the imagination. But not out on the lowlands that are the park. But there are also springs of good water, and small valleys with lush vegetation.

Not much, and most of it saline and undrinkable.

Wonderhussy has a video of one of these crash sites that she went to, and to several more of the cabins up in the mountains surrounding the lowlands. There were thousands of out of the way places on the edge, many with cabins or the remains of small towns. Many movies and TV shows, including The Twilight Zone, had been shot there. Stark arid landscapes, the perfect scene for a post-apocalyptic world, if that world had been scoured with nuclear fire. It had remained comfortable in my car, but seeing as the temp seemed to fluctuate with the altitude, I avoided going to Badwater, the lowest point in North America.īadlands, and further it, the valley, at Zabriskie point. It had been 123 degrees at Furnace Creek the last time I had visited, and had hit 125 at one point while driving to it. I was really looking forward to seeing Death Valley in reasonable temperatures.

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