Flyinbowtie
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It is about 11 pm and I can finally get online here in Furnace Creek Californai....the heart of Death Valley. We stopped in Ridgecrest and then headed out.
Or should I say up.
If.you think you have a bad mofo tow rig and want to test it out yank your RV over route 190 and come in to D.V. via Stovepipe Wells and get back to me. About a 3500 ft climb in roughly 10 miles. We started at around 44 degrees and it was 34 at the 5000 ft summit...then on the exhaust brake and down the 8 degree 2 lane and 58 degrees at the bottom.
Unreal
This trip has been over 20 years in the making. My grandmother was a schoolteacher in the 1950s through the 70s. She used to dig books out of the library discard pile and give them to me. I was a voracious reader. One was entitled "Death Valley in '49" by William L Manly.
It is the autobiography of the man who quite literally named this place. Written in 1879. Last check out of library in 1950 before being put in the discard pile and in my possession for close to 50 years i imagine.
So for the next day or two we will use the book and try to follow in some of his
footsteps... and I will take you with us.
Updates...and more on Mr Manly, with pics as I can get them to load up...to follow, if guys are interested.
We stopped at the marker for Panamint City. This was a lawless silver town at 5000 ft.
They shipped silver out in 400 lb cubes to discourage theft. Wells Fargo wouldn't serve the place due to the crime. This one pic took over 10 minutes to load...then failed. internet ain't a priority here. So please bear with me...may have to add them when we get to our next stop...Dumont Dunes.
We stopped in our 55 ft ish rig at the Panamint City and Ballarat markers to take pics...in the middle of nowhere...and about a minute later 3 carloads of Asian tourists pulled in behind us. I dont know what they stared at more, our rig or the mountains and stunning vistas.
Again pics to follow. I tried twice to upload 1 damn pic and watched upload to 80 % and fail
More to come...
Or should I say up.
If.you think you have a bad mofo tow rig and want to test it out yank your RV over route 190 and come in to D.V. via Stovepipe Wells and get back to me. About a 3500 ft climb in roughly 10 miles. We started at around 44 degrees and it was 34 at the 5000 ft summit...then on the exhaust brake and down the 8 degree 2 lane and 58 degrees at the bottom.
Unreal
This trip has been over 20 years in the making. My grandmother was a schoolteacher in the 1950s through the 70s. She used to dig books out of the library discard pile and give them to me. I was a voracious reader. One was entitled "Death Valley in '49" by William L Manly.
It is the autobiography of the man who quite literally named this place. Written in 1879. Last check out of library in 1950 before being put in the discard pile and in my possession for close to 50 years i imagine.
So for the next day or two we will use the book and try to follow in some of his
footsteps... and I will take you with us.
Updates...and more on Mr Manly, with pics as I can get them to load up...to follow, if guys are interested.
We stopped at the marker for Panamint City. This was a lawless silver town at 5000 ft.
They shipped silver out in 400 lb cubes to discourage theft. Wells Fargo wouldn't serve the place due to the crime. This one pic took over 10 minutes to load...then failed. internet ain't a priority here. So please bear with me...may have to add them when we get to our next stop...Dumont Dunes.
We stopped in our 55 ft ish rig at the Panamint City and Ballarat markers to take pics...in the middle of nowhere...and about a minute later 3 carloads of Asian tourists pulled in behind us. I dont know what they stared at more, our rig or the mountains and stunning vistas.
Again pics to follow. I tried twice to upload 1 damn pic and watched upload to 80 % and fail
More to come...
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