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Legend: Red circles denote cities where we have friends who we visited and stayed overnight. Blue circles stand for other places we stopped by. Green symbols are for campgrounds.
Monday, July 27, 2009
Saturday 18.7. (Death Valley)
We start from Fremont at 10 in the morning, and after a little confusion on the Vegas highways we get to route heading toward Death Valley. After the dry Las Vegas, a true Nevada desert replaces the surrounding and the temperature increses to 50 C degrees (and recording 125 F degrees of that afternoon). Driving into the park on the southern road, which is practically abandoned, we get to the Badwater lowlands, which is the lowest placed land in the Northern America (85 meters below sea level), the wind so hot that a man cannot stand to be out of the car more than several minutes. We go along the sand dunes. The gas started to disappear when we passed the Valley and only by chance and a strength of the minds we arrived to the gas station. Very expensive gas (welcome to California).
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