February 14 - 18, 2026 Shoshone, California

 70 and sunny.

John is starting on a patio made from broken cement. He says it  is like doing a jigsaw puzzle, the kind that is all one color. The Judy's just made it back from their first leg of there hike. They will be here a couple days and then take off again.

John's patio so far. The idea is to have to extend into where we were sitting. The Palmer Palms Party Patio! Sunset tonight. 

John has made amazing progress on the new patio. Sunset. 

Went for a walk around the White Trail today, before the rain. Lots of the same flowers, but they have gotten bigger. Brittle bush alley.

More bigger flowers.  We went to Pahrump, it was pouring rain this is coming back into Shoshone. 

Got a surprise at sunset, the sun peaked out and we got a rainbow and a beautiful sunset. The new weather station says we got 0.14 inches of rain. That is a lot for the desert and more is coming. The flowers will love it. 

John's patio almost done. He wants to put edging around it and some sand. Looks fabulous. Our room at Tecopa Hot springs resort. There are hot spring tubs right across the hall. Us ally when the Judy's do the B2B hike we hike from Shoshone to here in Tecopa. But it was muddy with a strong headwind, so we drove over. 

Sunset from Tecopa Hot Spring resort. We had a delicious steak dinner at Steak and Beer. The best steak house around. It is about a 3 minute walk from our rooms. 

It rained  0.17 inches of rain during the night. Just above us the mountains got snow. The Funeral mountains on the way into Death Valley. You can see the bat on Bat mountain on the left. 

The bus parked at Sunset Campground in Death Valley. We will be here a week, the B2B ends at the fancy Inn here, but we will stay in the bus.  Sunset over Furnace Creek Ranch.