Death Valley, California
Death Valley, California
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While accompanying my husband for his conference in Las Vegas in December 2021, I had the chance to join a small group day tour over to Death Valley, CA. We only visited the Southeast corner of the park and hit the most well known spots, but seeing the desolate, stark beauty was worth the long drive and super long day.
The tour company was called Bindlestiff Tours, and the tour guide Joel was incredibly knowledgable on a wide range of relevant topics. My favorite story he told was about an artist touring with her one-woman show in the 1960s. Her name was Marta Becket, and when she and her husband got a flat tire near Death Valley Junction, she happened upon an old building in disrepair. Long story short, she fell victim to the strange allure of the area. She decided to stop touring and settle in, creating the Amargosa Opera House out of that dilapidated building in Death Valley Junction. The group tour did not include a tour of the opera house itself but that's something I'd love to do one day.
Devil's Golf Course
This former lake bed is all sand and minerals, and crusted with rock crystals! Just imagine it in the heat of summer, when it's 120 degrees.
The landscape at Zabriskie's Point
It was a balmy 85 degrees in December
More Zabriskie's Point
Salt crystals
You can see a Devil's golf ball in this photo. The ground is impossibly difficult to walk on.
Dante's View of the Valley
Dante's View
Dante's View
Dante's View
Across the valley from Dante's View
Artist's Palette - so named for the colorful deposits of various volcanic compounds
Badwater Basin - the water here is "bad" due to the amount of salt it contains.
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