The Drive
Here is a spattering of the driving we did. It was something like 1400 miles in 7 days. The kids were great. We only heard "are we there yet?" 4,592 times. I mean, they could have been a pain about it.
This is the one picture we took in Death Valley. It was hot there. I think we hit it about 8:30 in the morning and if you stuck your hand out the window of the car, it felt like a blast furnace. This one was taken out the drivers window. We never even got out of the car.
After we got out of Death Valley, we were just driving along fat, dumb and happy. When all of a sudden, we ran into a cattle train. No kidding. The cows were just walking along, weaving into and around the cars, with a couple of cowboys on horseback, trying to maintain order. I kept waiting for one of them to poop on someone's car. The cow's, not the cowboys.
This was a beautiful stream we found going over one of the passes on the eastern edge of the Sierra's. We had to walk a couple hundred feet down from the road. We were really enjoying it until we noticed some tracks in the mud. After examining them for a bit, we determined they looked just like bear tracks, and really big tracks at that. Then after some more observation, we realized they were fresh. Very fresh. Now I am not an Indian tracker or anything, but they looked just a little older that the tracks we were making. It was then decided that the stream would look much better from the road, inside the car.
The obligatory pics of Kathy and I, holding the camera ourselves. This is actually the first one we took with the big camera so it took some doing. Oh, by the way, that is Lake Tahoe in the distance.