Friday 22 Mar 2013

Another amazing day in Death Valley.

Wake up at 7040 feet, at 34 F, is another adventure.
But hot coffee, and 1 hour later in the 80 +F valley makes all good.

Crossing to Valley, to the ghost town Rhyolite.
What a surprise, this town was now the 'goldwell open air'
museum, from the Belgian sculptor Albert Szukalski.
He is from antwerp and known for his "ghostly" shrouded
figures. But several other Belgian artist, such as Fred
Bervoets worked at the side.

From there the adventures 4x4 drive to the Titus Canyon.
The 'red pass' had even for me some scary moments, but what
an amazing set of views.

Another ghost town Leadfield. From the official sign:
This was a mining boom town founded on the wild and
distorted advertising 300 hopeful people swarned here and
a post was established in august 1926, in February 1927,
the post offic closed and the town died.

Ended the afternoon with the visit to Scott's Castle.

Spent the night in Beatty. An old miners town with still
about 1000 people. But what kind of figures...
Gun control, Obama care, all intersting topics but one
of us, is totally out of touch.