Day 22 of our 2018 Jumbo Road Trip.
Beatty, NV to Flagstaff, AZ with another dip into Death Valley. Because of a bad wreck on US-95 yesterday evening that was along our path, and the road wasn’t totally cleared this morning, we opted to duck down into Death Valley again. When we went last night we took a right and headed northwest, but our drive through this morning would be south and east. We were so excited last night when the car GPS read -57 feet we took a picture, but this morning we got to below -200 feet and were so jaded by being below sea level that we didn’t take that picture.
No geocaching today. I had picked a bunch all along the original route, but with the detour through the valley, our impromptu tour of southern Las Vegas, the weirdness of new road construction around Hoover Dam, and all the road construction along I-40 in Arizona we just never got in the groove.
I didn’t check the odometer when we parked, but I bet today was our longest day in the car (over 400 miles.) It was either that and/or the change in altitude, -200′ in the early morning to 7,000′ at the end of the day, that got us both a little cranky with each other as we unpacked the Mini at tonight’s HIE.