Welcome to the photo blog for David and Janet Elmore. You can find pages full of photos from our trips with Vanessa or Savanna (our van-based RV) and pages that are a record of events with lots of photos. Many of our travel photos are connected to a map at the bottom of our posts so you can see where we went and can look for photos at specific places.
Below is a list of recent posts.
David and Janet
Even though we had a long drive to Tucson, we did a bit of sighteing at Hoover Dam before leaving Lake Mead. The Dam is quite an engineering miracle that I remember reading about in my “Weekly...
We packed up in Death Valley and headed out the Daylight Pass Road between the Grapevine and Funeral Mountains. The ride to Las Vegas is through pretty uninteresting territory, but great mountain views. In...
After leaving our campsite at Mesquite Springs we drive the 50 miles south to Furnace Creek to get fuel and milk, then headed back to Stovepipe Wells where we planned to spend the night. This campground is...
We had two fairly strenuous hikes today. In the morning we drove back to Zabriskie Point to see the colorful hills in a different light. Then we walked the 2.5 mile Badlands loop. The loop gives you a first...
We started the day with a return to Desolation Canyon for a hike up Desolation Canyon which is to the right of the canyon we hiked yesterday (Desolation Canyon East). Again, this was a lovely quiet canyon...
We chose today to make some of the “typical” Death Valley stops, Badwater and Natural Arch Canyon, but less typical was a walk into Desolation Canyon East. Badwater is still 282 feet below sea...
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,...
At Joshua Tree NP there are a number of places in the park that you have to leave the park to get to. So we headed north and out of the park to the Forty-nine Palms trailhead. The trail is described variously...
Today’s hikes took us on a one-mile loop hike to the Barker Dam — an ephemeral pool that was dammed to collect more water when cattle were grazed in the area. As the climate dried, cattle grazing...
Aside from the Joshua Trees, this national park is known for its rocks. Huge piles of soft, rounded rocks made of monzogranite which look as if they were piled and placed by human hands rather then uplift and...
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