Death Valley 2022/23

[Beardilocks]

Dude.

That metate.

No way!

Mind. Blown.

And those pictographs????? They are beyond beautiful.

Ah man we just got back home and all I can think of is exchanging the RAV for a Tacoma, telling my boss to shove it,  and hoping us and the cats would actually enjoy the van life.

This was a more eventful trip than some out here.  70% research while riding out the pandemic & building my truck and 30% feeling the landscape as you're in it.  

Dirtbag life is a very mixed bag.  It gets pretty bloody lonely.  And very stinky.  But we only have a few trips around that fireball that... I assume is still up there beyond yet another rainstorm here today...  And I don't want to use up too many of them as a slave to make huge profits for someone else.  

4WD/HC is essential but there's loads you can see in something smaller.  Just ask the larger midwestern couple that flew by me at about 55mph on Racetrack Rd in a Subaru with highway tires.  Lol.  They must have prayed hard to the God of steel belted radials to make it at those speeds without having to get the donut spare out.  Hahaha.