Before you ask, No, the trip to "Death Valley" and the surgery had nothing to do with each other except timing.
Before surgery we decided to get the motorhome and Arlyene out for some exercise so we went to the nearby town of Pahrump where there is a decent RV Park. We were there for four days between surgery #1 and the more recent surgery #2. We used Pahrump as our base camp for a trip into Death Valley to check out camping areas for a longer trip next March.
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| Our round trip "Track" from Pahrump to Furnace Creek and back. |
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| Our day trip into the National Park took us down to 190 feet below sea level. |
The temperature at -190 feet was 82 degrees the day we were there. By contrast when we reached the highpoint of the trip, Dante's View it was 67 degrees at close to 5500 feet.
Death Valley is an interesting place and we plan to go back but I would never want to be there when rain was threatening and certainly not in the summer where it has been known to reach into the 130's.. That is just a bit too toasty for us.
Here are a few more snapshots of what we saw.
(As usual you can click on any individual picture for a larger view.)
(As usual you can click on any individual picture for a larger view.)
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