Day 4 Sunset Campground Death Valley National Park Death Valley, California

We were slow this morning to make a plan.  We had our coffee outside.  We went to the visitor center to see the exhibits and the Death Valley 30-minute movie. 

We packed lunch decided to take a short off-road ride to Echo Canyon. 

We were forced to turn around at this rock staircase.  This Blazer tried twice before giving up.  We didn’t want to take a risk.  Notice the recliners on the top of this Blazer!  Sometimes off-road you meet some characters! 

We passed a lot of abandoned mining sites.  There were places that someone had started to dig and just gave up!  The ground here is so hard and unforgiving…it must have been a very difficult job.  So many men traveled out here with dreams of getting the gold.

On the way back we had the sunroof off.  I was standing on the seat, with my head through the roof, taking in the canyon as we passed through. 

We went to Zabriskie Point.  This overlooks the Death Valley Badlands.  The rocks were soft ice cream colors, French vanilla, strawberry, chocolate, mint…so tremendously beautiful.

We drove into the Timbisha Shoshone Preservation Area.  We had our dinner at Timbisha Tacos.  It was delicious!