Ridgecrest, CA to Panamint Springs, Death Valley National Park, CA
The highlight, if you can call it that, was passing through Trona, probably the wierdest town we've ever come across. There's some sort of mineral mining going on in this town, and it's residents have a very temporary feel about them. About 3 in 4 shops and homes were boarded up, and each entrance to town was marked by a rotting, rusting pile of trucks and RV's and boats and metal. Very eery.
Otherwise the scenery all day was very nice, a bit highway 50 like, riding through desert basin terrain, surrounded on all sides by multi-hued (red, brown, gold) mountains, with a few sand dunes here and there. Actually this was much more "lonliest road in America" style than highway 50 was supposed to be, maybe a dozen vehicles past us in a 6 hour day. One descent carved its way into the mountains, the road bored right through them. Eventually we make it to Panamint Springs, inside Death Valley, very tired, very salty (sweaty), very dusty, and very jarred from the incredibly bumpy condition of the road.
Sidenote: Without a fly on our tent (why would we? It's the driest place in America and the night sky is crystal clear) we are woken by light rain at 5am, causing a mad rush to cover up and tie up the panniers.
Otherwise the scenery all day was very nice, a bit highway 50 like, riding through desert basin terrain, surrounded on all sides by multi-hued (red, brown, gold) mountains, with a few sand dunes here and there. Actually this was much more "lonliest road in America" style than highway 50 was supposed to be, maybe a dozen vehicles past us in a 6 hour day. One descent carved its way into the mountains, the road bored right through them. Eventually we make it to Panamint Springs, inside Death Valley, very tired, very salty (sweaty), very dusty, and very jarred from the incredibly bumpy condition of the road.
Sidenote: Without a fly on our tent (why would we? It's the driest place in America and the night sky is crystal clear) we are woken by light rain at 5am, causing a mad rush to cover up and tie up the panniers.
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