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Journeys 8 Jun 2010
Tony E
Life in Death Valley by Tony Ellis Comment (0)
 

Tehachapi, CA: I look out my hotel window and see two inches of snow and the low gray clouds of a late winter storm and decide it's time to visit Death Valley where I can pretty much guarantee it will be 85 degrees or more.


Death Valley is a deep cleft in the landscape on the eastern edge of the Mohave Desert, 250 miles or so inland from the Pacific Ocean. It contains the lowest land in North