Day one…California!

My alarm happily turned on this morning at 3:30am, and I bolted out of bed, made a cup of coffee and had a shower. Thankfully, Sandra had put in a lot of work in the past couple days to make us well-prepared to hit the road, so we had little to do in the way of last-minute packing or panicking. So, after having to call Beck's after the airport limo didn't show up, we got to Pearson on time,...

Day 2…Death Valley & Las Vegas.

So, today we left Lone Pine, and made our way down hwy 190, through Death Valley, and on to Las Vegas. Death Valley is one of those places that you could never forget - you start at about 4000ft elevation at the entrance to the park. Then it's a series of switchbacks and ever-increasing temperatures, all the way down to Stovepipe Wells, which is at around sea-level. When we started out in Lone...