John with binoculars watching for them. At the very bottom of the photo I added the view through the binocs-- a white heat wavy line, almost impossible to see the figures. Bec, Judy D and Judy P gasping in the heat at the Badwater sign. Badwater is 282 feet below sea level.
Badwater is a very popular tourist stop. People want to see the lowest place in the western hemisphere and walk out to the salt flats. You can see reflected in the water Telescope peak which is the highest place in Death Valley at around 11,000 feet. Phyllis dressed as a Harvey Girl bringing cold water to the hikers. She is driving them up to Furnace Creek Inn. Judy D, Phyllis, Bec and Judy P.
This is Furnace Creek Inn. It is where they will spend the last night of their trip. We are joining them for dinner. John dressed up in his sports coat having a Manhattan in the bar at Furnace Creek Inn waiting for dinner. He dressed up since he is escorting 7 women to dinner.
We had before dinner drinks on the veranda near their room. Donna,Susan and John. Donna and Susan drove down to celebrate with the group. The warm spring fed pool at Furnace Creek Inn as seen from the veranda.
Dinner at the Inn. Bec, Judy D, John and Donna at one table and Phyllis, Judy P and Susan at the other. At a ceremony after dinner Judy presented Bec with the award for finishing the B2B. It is a piece the Tonepah to Tidewater railroad that says Beatty to Badwater on it. John, Donna, Judy P, Bec and Judy D.
We are heading south. The worlds tallest thermometer in Baker , Ca says it is 77 degrees. Gas is really high in Baker, but the famous Bun boy sign is in the background, On the way to Joshua Tree there was this sign saying a road was closed. Didn't say if we could still get to Joshua Tree or not. So we went, and we got through. We drove on part of Route 66 to Amboy where the Amboy Crater is. We were going to camp there but it was still early so we kept going. And a shrine of trash in Amboy. We drove through the Mohave Preserve past Kelso Dunes, where we camped last time through and Granite Mountains.
Amboy has a populations of 4 people. Historic Roy's Motel and Cafe are still standing. They were a big stop when people were traveling Route 66, before highway 40 went in and then the town died. We are camped in the BLM free dispersed camping just east of Joshua Tree National Park. The flowers are incredible.
A short rainstorm blew through and then we had a rainbow over the bus and all around it. Not sure what these flowers are but they are really pretty.
John photographing poppies. Evening light on the bus and flowers.
There are fields of lupines here. The smell is heavenly.
Sunset. A field of poppies and lupines.
Phacelia, evening primrose, poppies and lupines. My friend Susan made these pottery bases for me to build pots on.
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