We woke to a warm sunny day. The girls complete their schoolwork outside ont he picnic table in shorts and had to keep moving into the shade because the sun was too hot. What a nice feeling! We heard there was an ice storm at home 🙂 When Daddy wrapped up his meetings, we set off to explore Hollywood. We purchased our map t the stars and set out to find Taylor...
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We woke early this morning and were on the road by 7:30am. The storm clouds were all around and it made the sights beautiful. The kids commented that it looked like the highway to heaven.
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Vast salt flats that cover nearly 200 square miles at the lowest elevation in North America. Too harsh for most plants and animals to survive, yet are quite fragile. Delicate crystals are easily crushed and the relatively thin upper crust of salt can break through to the mud layer below. Not quite as impressive as the salt flats we saw in Bolivia but still among...
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From the Death Valley Website http://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/historyculture/scottys-castle.htm Hidden in the green oasis of Grapevine Canyon in far northern Death Valley, the Death Valley Ranch, or Scotty’s Castle as it is more commonly known, is a window into the life and times of the Roaring ’20s and Depression ’30s. It was and is an...
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From the Death Valley Website http://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/historyculture/rhyolite-ghost-town.htm Her birth was brought about by Shorty Harris and E. L. Cross, who were prospecting in the area in 1904. They found quartz all over a hill, and as Shorty describes it “… the quartz was just full of free gold… it was the original bullfrog rock… this...
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