2019 Rio Grande – part 15, Big Bend: change of plans and 3 new friends
Our original plan was to take off Saturday morning for 3 days in the triangle of Alpine, Fort Davis, and Marfa (ever heard of Marfa lights?) before we blitz to...
2019 Rio Grande – part 16, off to Vegas, dust storm, boondocking, soccer, Hoover Dam
As mentioned in our previous post, our goal now is to get to Las Vegas by the weekend so we can see Montana (our California granddaughter) play in a national...
2019 other side of California – part 1, Death Valley: getting settled, Dante’s View, first residents
We left Las Vegas driving northwest toward Death Valley. To tell you the truth, I was hesitant to go to Death Valley because all I had ever heard of it...
2019 other side of CA – part 2, Death Valley: 20-mule team wagons and borax
If you’re under 60 (and maybe over 60), you may not understand our fascination with these mule teams pulling wagons of borax. In the 1950s and 1960s, one of the...
2019 other side – part 3, Death Valley: low elevation, salt, golf, artists, canyons, iced tea
Today we drove south from Furnace Creek area to explore what’s in the valley. We started out at Badwater Basin, the lowest spot in the continental United States: 282 feet...