Death Valley is a nutty place. Austere, strange, beautiful, and more than a little hostile feeling. It doesn't feel like a place where humans should be, especially during the heat of the day. It's huge and vast and gorgeous though, with sand dunes, beautiful watercolor-like hillsides in reds, pinks and purples, and surprisingly large mountains. The roads stretch out straight across the desert seemingly to infinity. It's also a huge National Park so there's some pretty great people watching:) We stayed in the valley for a couple of nights and hiked in Mosaic Canyon, checked out the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes at first light, and camped in a canyon full of cactus (cacti?) and desert flowers. It's amazing the diversity of this country we live in!
