We made it to Death Valley this morning. We spent most of the day visiting the highlights. I resumed my old hobby of eating lunch in amazing places when we visited Ubehebe Creator. This mountain blew it’s top about 2,000 years ago. I compared the size of this creator to information from the 1980 Mt. Saint Helen’s mountain eruption. The Ubehebe creator is impressively large, but apparently the Mt. Saint Helen’s eruption was much larger.

Another highlight was Zabrishie Point which has a nice view of the many geological features that make Death Valley so interesting.

This weekend is the Dark Sky Festival. We were motivated to go out at night and do some star gazing. We saw an impressive array of stars, but truth be told, we saw even more at Pipe Spring. My best ever star view was Mt. Haleakalā. Still, it was an impressive display.

I hope this finds everyone doing well.