I don’t have a lot to say about Thanksgiving day in terms of exploration, but I can’t go without mentioning the incredible food and friendship that we find in the most remote of locations every year. This was our fourth year in Death Valley with friends and each year it gets better and better. We [...]
It’s that time of year again, time for me to play desert rat for a week. Thanksgiving is a great time to head to the desert. Temperatures are mild to cold and crowds are generally light (except on the freeways). As usual, we hopped into the car on the Friday before Thanksgiving and headed south, [...]
Predictably, we spent the Thanksgiving week in the deserts of Southern California. This year’s trip stuck to Mojave and Death Valley with a chunk of Las Vegas wedged in between. I’m in the process of posting photos and blog entries and they’ll be popping up here over the next few days. A brief glance at [...]
After a couple days of fun in Las Vegas we hit the road to join a group of friends in Death Valley for Thanksgiving. Our meeting place was the old trailer park on BLM land just outside of the park. This is an interesting place – once a trailer park for local miners, it is [...]
After 11 hours on the road, we returned Sunday night from our nine day trip through Utah, Nevada, and Death Valley. We arrived at Zion NP early enough on the Saturday before Thanksgiving to catch sunset on the towering red rocks, then spent Sunday cramming in as much dayhiking as possible. We visited the Weeping [...]
Once again I find myself in the final planning stages of our annual Thanksgiving Desert Road Trip. This trip always creeps up on me so quickly. First it’s Halloween, then my Birthday, and then all of a sudden I find myself in the middle of the desert on Thanksgiving (“Punch punch punch!”, in the words [...]
Almost every year, Dave and I head down to the desert for Thanksgiving. This year we spent four days in Death Valley. Although we’ve been to the park many times before, this time we tried to see things we hadn’t seen before.
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