The western border of Death Valley National Park is not, it turns out, even in Death Valley. It’s in Panamint Valley, which is basically the next valley to the west of Death Valley. It was there that we reached the large Welcome to Death Valley monument/sign and stopped for a touristy photo op. From there […]

My plan for Death Valley, after doing my trip planning (which will be detailed later), was pretty simple. On Tuesday we’d leave home at a very reasonable hour of about 9am and make the 290-mile drive to Ridgecrest, where we’d stay in a hotel for the night. The next day we’d get up earlier and […]

I write this a few days after returning from a 5-day road trip to Death Valley. I’ve wanted to go there for several years now and started planning our trip when we purchased the Land Cruiser back in late August. Now I’ve got a bajillion photos to sort through, select, and edit before creating the […]

We had a busy and wonderful weekend at Angel Island. I’d been to Angel Island several times in the past, most recently a few years back for a pair of mountain biking & geocaching day visits. I’d never camped overnight on the island though so I was really looking forward to that. Luckily, I’d managed […]