On The Road To Hell

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Having left Vegas our next stop is to be "Death Valley".

We didn't realise "Area 51" was along the way.
This is supposed to be one of the most secretive places in the world!
But there it is, on a notice board - "Last service before Area 51".
(Doesn't sound very top secret to us!)


There are also signs saying:-

"Deadly force is authorized if violators,
who attempt to breach the secured area fail to heed warnings"
Enough said!


Now on to Death Valley.............


First off we have to mention the heat, 120 degrees and rising throughout our visit.
Alas there was a wind, but it was like a fan heater on full power blasting at you!!!!


To say it was an uncomfortable, would be an understatement.
(We now know why the majority of the visitors, visit during the winter)


Must say it was the most incredible place to visit.
It really is understandable, why people are drawn to it.
We have never seen or imagined a place like it.

"If Hell really is a place, it would be here!!!"

Well worth a visit, but maybe not in the height of summer................

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Photos

"The Extraterrestrial Highway",
Area 51 is usually protrayed as a haven for aliens.
Let's hope we don't meet any!
(Mind you that guy at the garage looked a bit weird!!!)

Death Valley
And I hope it's not the death of me!!!

Death Valley National Park .
The hottest, driest place in North America.

Best not tell Skim,
that there are rattle snakes, sidewinders and trantulas here....

Hurry up and take the picture!
I'm melting!!!!

Took 10mins and a gallon of sweat to climb up here!!!
Thank goodness we have loads of water with us!

But the view is worth it...
A view from Zabriskie Point.

Manly Beacon and Red Cathedral
viewed from Zabriskie Point.

Old Dinah 1894...
Steam Tractor that replaced, the twenty mule teams that originally ferried borax out of Death Valley.

Never been this far under the sea before...
And check out that temperature!!!

The Titanothere
A distant relative of the rhinocerous, it existed in Death Valley more than 37 million years ago.

The view towards..
Winters Peak..

Furnace Creek
And it surely feels like, we're in a furnace!!!

White Gold..
Borax was discovered near this point in 1881...

Harmony Borax Works..
Now disused...

Devil's Corn Field
is located along Highway 190 between Stovepipe Wells and Beatty Junction (just east of the sand dunes). The plant that gives the area its unique appearance is an evergreen plant, arrow weed (Pluchea sericea). As the common name implies, the plant's woody stocks were used by Native Americans to make arrows.

Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes..
Too hot to walk out there to build sand castles...

Towne Pass..
From 190 feet below sea level, to 4956 feet above.

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[tracie]

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