Today it was cloudy and rainy. Good day to hang out. Here is a drawing of the new plans for Furnace Creek Ranch. They have built the left side of the photo including the building with the cupola on top. They are now working on phase two, 80 casitas pictured in the right side of the photo. They tore down a historic western/mining kind of place and put up a cheap modern mix of styles that look like a cheap casino complete with the buffet. Made a parking lot into a lawn, fountain and palm trees- there was never enough parking before, now there is even less. They tore out a historic date palm orchard to put the casitas in. And in the picture they have palm trees where the golf course, campground and visitors center is now. They are putting in hundreds of palm trees. Guess they don't know it is a desert with very limited water. Oh well they didn't ask me. We've been coming here for over 20 years and it has been wonderfully the same until now.
This is what the casitas will look like. Does not exactly match the faux southwestern of the rest of the village. They are more Victorian. This is one of the entrances to the buffet, ice cream shop and gift shop they put up.
Some nice native american baskets in the museum. Death Valley is celebrating it's 25th anniversary of being a national park. it is the hottest in the world, driest in north america, and lowest spot in the USA.
This 5th wheel has a rear and side deck. Pretty fancy, but it has been too cold to make much use of it right now. We went up to Furnace Creek Inn for a holiday drink. This is the remodeled lobby.
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