{"id":1518,"date":"2016-04-04T02:32:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T02:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/?page_id=1518"},"modified":"2017-07-11T23:35:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T23:35:21","slug":"1518-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/can-you-spell-rv\/death-valley-southern-california\/1518-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Valley \u2013 Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Death Valley \u2013 Day 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

April 1, 2016<\/p>\n

After a busy day and a\u00a0strenuous hike, we decided to take it “easy” for our second day \u2013 starting off with a driving trail through Titus Canyon.\u00a0 Here is how\u00a0the park brochure\u00a0described the trail:<\/p>\n

Titus Canyon \u2013 The largest and most diverse canyon in the Park.\u00a0 Within its lofty walls visitors can find volcanic deposits, a ghost town, petroglyphs, bighorn sheep, and deep, winding narrows.\u00a0 It is accessible to high clearance vehicles via a 26 mile, one way dirt road. The trip will take about 3 hours.<\/em><\/p>\n

After driving it, Judith has re-named it \u201cTerror Trail\u201d!\u00a0 The sign at the start of the road saying \u201chigh clearance vehicle recommended\u201d is a major understatement! There were ruts and washes at least a foot deep in places, as well as lots of rocks.\u00a0 But, the real thrill was the hour or so in the middle, driving on a winding track around the mountains with one wheel scraping the mountain wall while the other had about a foot of room before reaching the cliff edge! The door handle on Judith\u2019s side has permanent imprints from her grip! (Well, almost.)<\/p>\n

But the sights were great \u2013 even though we didn\u2019t see any bighorn sheep. \u00a0The Desert Bloom continues, and we made a new friend!<\/p>\n

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After the four plus hours it took us to drive the \u201cTerror Trail\u201d, we wanted something very sedate.\u00a0 So we went to the Mesquite Flats Sand Dunes.\u00a0 Delightful & mysterious.<\/p>\n

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To wrap up the day, we stopped at a (mostly) out of the way rest area to watch the stars.\u00a0 Death Valley is an oasis of dark nights in an increasingly bright world.\u00a0 Living around big cities and towns, we cannot see the Milky Way, or Cannis, or the Little Dipper \u2026 or many other items in the night sky. \u00a0We didn\u2019t plan this, so I didn\u2019t take the tripod \u2013 we just enjoyed looking at the stars.<\/p>\n

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Death Valley \u2013 Day 2 April 1, 2016 After a busy day and a\u00a0strenuous hike, we decided to take it “easy” for our second day \u2013 starting off with a driving trail through Titus Canyon.\u00a0 Here is how\u00a0the park brochure\u00a0described the trail: Titus Canyon \u2013 The largest and most diverse canyon in the Park.\u00a0 Within … Continue reading Death Valley \u2013 Day 2<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1575,"menu_order":48,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1518","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2606,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1518\/revisions\/2606"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}