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Published: December 16th 2006
On the road to nowhere...
Even Nevada has its fair share of straight roads.Day two of our road trip took us through more desert and along more straight roads. We were fairly close to Area 51, but decided to skip it.
Almost at Death Valley we took a little detour into the ghost town of Rhyolite. The town was built in 1906, after gold was found in 1904. 10,000 people lived here at one time. By 1910 everyone was gone, as there wasn't really that much gold. If this isn't the Wild West nothing is!
By the time we got to Death Valley we were pretty good at just sitting in the car with the cuise control on and just letting it run along the straight roads by itself. However, the roads in Death Valley are considerably more crooked.
Death Valley isn't actually that dead, with loads of vegetation and the odd scorpion and rattlesnake, not that we saw any...
Gas to Death Valley: $50. Coffee (vanilla!) in Beatty: $1. Sunset in the valley: priceless.
Dag tva pa var resa tog oss genom mer oken och langs mer rakstrackor. Vi var ganska nara Area 51, men hoppade over det.
Nar vi var nastan framme i Death
Saloon...
in the middle of nowhere. Valley tog vi en liten omvag till spokstaden Rhyolite. Staden byggdes 1906, efter att man hittat guld 1904. 10 000 manniskor bodde har under stadens blomstringsperiod, men 1910 hade alla flyttat darifran igen eftersom det inte fanns sa varst mycket guld att grava fram (i USA 😉. Akta vilda vasternstad!
Val framme i Death Valley hade vi blivit ratt bra pa att bara sitta i bilen med fartkontrollen pa och bara lata den kora sjalv langs rakstrackan. Vagarna i Death Valley var dock betydligt krokigare.
Death Valley ar faktiskt inte sa dod, det finns mycket vaxtlighet och en del skorpioner och skallerormar, fast vi sag inte till nagra...
Bensin till Death Valley: $50. Kaffe (vanilj!) i Beatty: $1. Solnedgang i dalen: obetalbar.
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