Carmel -> Death Valley -> Mammoth
But first a hotel hair cut
Early morning walk to the beach. Beautiful red glow coming form the sun as it comes up from behind the dunes
Make it stand out
I shot a few rolls of film, while April Slept in
Waking to the aquarium
The Aquarium was too dark for film photos but Carmle wasn’t
We took the 17 mile drive on the way home
A quick stop back home to pick up some flowers
Some Thai tea before the 12 hour drive
We didn’t take any photos between tea and camping, due to traffic and frustration
We set up the tent at 1am in a BLM
Lone Pine California
Death Valley
The First of many camera malfunctions on this trip.
We reached our first and only stop from day one in Death Valley with almost no light. Lots and lots of tasty salt mixing with not so tasty sand.
Death Valley Day Two
I woke up for sunrise and a run while April slept till about 10am
The photos cannot capture the truly amazing colors that I saw that morning. The layers of blue punctuated by red and orange highlights.
I saw some cool sands dunes during the drive in. I didn’t realize they were about an hour away from where we camped.
Time to run my 5K!
This was my turnaround spot. Aprils still wasn’t up by the time I got back to the tent….
A quick desert photo shoot before driving searching for some snow
trying to find a camping site
We got set up right off the road in a few feet of snow
Work up early to take some sunrise pics, but my cameras froze. I’ll have to figure out how to keep them warm if i’m to get some shots.
Our juggling friend joined us for a few hours
Getting ready for a night below freezing
Sunrise:
Getting some soaks in
Heading back to the Bay Area
But not before stopping at this random small town for some great classic Motel signs and some very underexposed photos of rivers
