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Death Valley, CA – Wednesday April 3, 2019

Today we drove north again heading toward “The Race Track”. This is where under the right conditions rocks move across the ground by themselves.

The sign as you leave the paved road has a picture of a little 4X4 Jeep, and they mean it. It is 27 miles to the Race Track so that make it a 54 mile trip. The “road” is a jeep road with lots a axle braking rocks, soft sand and loose rocks, the kind of road you have to drive every foot. After 45 minutes and 7 miles we decided it would be wise to turn around and head back. It took another 1.5 miles before I found a place in the road I wanted to turn around. The road way is not very wide with all the deep loose rocks I didn’t want to get stuck trying to turn around. Having both the front and back wheels in this loose rock at the same time did not seem like a good idea.

Death Valley, CA – Monday April 1, 2019

On our first day in Death Valley we decided to go north.

Drove across one of the high valleys in Death Valley.

Ended up at a Father Crowley lookout point which is over a canyon the Air Force uses to practice flying.

This shows how steep the canyon is in this area.

We stood on the edge and watch several planes fly along the valley. A fighter and a C130.

Here are some pictures of the fighter.

The C130

We stayed and watched 3 fighters and one C130, it was getting to be lunch time so I figured they were all on their way back home to get something to eat.

Barstow, CA – Saturday March 30, 2019

On our way to Death Valley

Today’s drive end up much longer then planned, I will write up the story tomorrow. Don’t know when we will have internet again so it maybe after we leave Death Valley before it is posted. The short version is we drove up Hwy 247 30 miles to a road closed sign, closed for construction until Monday 4/1/2019.