Miscellaneous scenes and notes from my December 2021 ten days in Death Valley. The devil is in the details as I made some trivial connections and learned some history. Can't wait to get back there!

So, are the birds an indication of how good the food is at the restaurant? Maybe it ought to be called the “Roadkill Cafe.” 

(2022-01-15, 04:30 PM)DAW89446 Wrote: So, are the birds an indication of how good the food is at the restaurant? Maybe it ought to be called the “Roadkill Cafe.” 

 Believe it or not your funny comment could take on an even darker shade of humor. If one walks across Highway 190 from the restaurant through the campground on a north east track, the large sewage processing ponds for the village appear. Depending on the time of day the ravens are playing in the sludge like kids at the beach. Their squawks and screeches up in that tree at the restaurant could in deed be called "potty mouth talk." 

Now for another point of view. I've only had dinner once and breakfast twice at the SPW restaurant. (Never been in the bar.) Dinner was with my wife seven years ago on our way to Sequoia National Park, a decent steak dinner. Not fancy but decent and we both enjoyed it. The two breakfasts were just in December 2021 and were full courses, delicious and reasonable. The server was outstanding to the point after the second breakfast I added a twenty dollar bill to the tip. I'll have to try lunch some time for comparison.

I got a kick out of the trash truck moving around the concrete vault toilets. Here’s what they looked like after the huge, fatal flash flood of 2004 that ripped down Furnace Creek Wash.



I was invited by the park service to cover the event for the Bishop newspaper while the park was still closed. Got to see lots of carnage of vehicles and park structures. A Tecopa based author, whom I had known for a few years at the time, was also invited to write a story for the Pahrump and Bishop papers.

Wow, DAW, looks like Mother Nature thoroughly flushed those toilets. LOL