Recapping, our complete trip totaled 1,250 miles. 450 of those miles were within the boundaries of Death Valley National Park, according to the maps I used. (Note that the park boundary on the west starts way out in Panamint Valley.) We spent a total of 130 miles on dirt. Our drive from Stovepipe Wells to […]

Editorial note: This short post wraps up our Death Valley trip. It covers our drive home and our stop in the historic town of San Juan Bautista, so fair warning: the actual Death Valley and offroad coverage ended with the previous post. There will be one more post after this one to conclude this series. […]

“It’s not an adventure until something goes wrong.” – Yvon Chouinard We woke up at Wildrose campground and had coffee (hot chocolate for Allison) and our traditional family camping breakfast, warm Mountain House granola with blueberries and milk. It was our last day in Death Valley and it was nice to not have as many […]

We woke up at Homestake Camp around 0700 and reluctantly dragged our sorry carcasses out of our warm sleeping bags. As usual, Allison had slept like a log all night long but Carrie and I each had to brave the freezing cold to go use the toxic outhouse in the middle of the night. Sliding […]