Back from the warm desert

Well, we got back from the desert on Saturday evening after a nice 2 week trip. Unfortunately the weather could have been much better for both of us but it wasn't bad all the time. The first night it snowed on us and the first picture is what it looked like in the morning when we woke up. I was really hoping that wasn't going to set the pace for the rest of the trip and it didn't so that was good. It actually warmed up later in the day and I was even able to walk into Darwin Falls with my shirt off to get some sun.


I was planning on doing a blog update from Furnace Creek Visitor's Center since they have free wifi but the laptop had a battery issue and we didn't have enough juice to be able to do much of anything. Oh well, that's the way it goes. We did some pretty gnarly 4-wheeling and we got some video of it that I might post here next time. The Jeep was great and the short wheel base really helped maneuvering around the many rocks and other obstacles. Like I told Karen, we took the worst roads I knew of in the park on this trip and never had a problem.

One funny thing was that we ran into a guy in a campground in Death Valley that looked familiar to Karen and indeed he should have since he was the guy who drilled her well in Greenville. Talk about a small world, huh? We finished the trip in Saline Valley at the hot springs where we stayed for 3 nights but Karen wasn't too thrilled about the nudity there. The weather in Saline was in the 80's and that was nice but the last night a storm blew through with the worst winds I have ever seen out there. The drive out Steel Pass was uneventful and the road was like I remember it, not too bad.