My trek to the northwest continued up US-395 along the eastern edge of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. I had heard so many stories about the beauty of this route, that I just had to travel this way. (Lone Pine CA) The Alabama Hills are situated between the town and Mt.Whitney the highest point in the […]
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Death Valley
(Death Valley CA) Spent a few days visiting Death Valley National Park. The first stop was at Zabriskie Point with its interesting shapes and colors. Then I went to the Visitor Center at Furnace Creek to get my bearings. From there I headed to Badwater Basin, the lowest point in North America at 282 ft […]
Opera House
(Death Valley Junction CA) On the way to the next big thing, I stopped to visit the Amargosa Opera House and Hotel in the desert. I was told it was worth the time to see, and it surely was! In the late 1960s Marta Becket, a dancer, pianist, singer and artist from NYC restored a […]