Driving through the desert

Today we drove from Joshua Tree NP to Death Valley NP, with a stop at the grocery store (Von’s) in Joshua Tree. Groceries here, even the produce, are good, but very expensive.

After a five hour drive, we arrived at Death Valley and checked into our site in the Furnace Creek Campground. We will be here for at least 4 nights. The sites are widely spaced here, but with little foliage the area looks like a well-kept Walmart parking lot with picnic tables and fire rings. There are a few sites with electric hookups.  Our phones work, but with very limited cell data. Later we paid $25 for three days of Wi-Fi which was ok for email but very slow which meant no video streaming.

-- Janet (text) and David (photos)