Departed Lee Vining @ 10:45am, we had to do some laundry. We headed south on RTE 395 and made a brief stop at the site of the Japanese Internment Camp (pic 1) in Owens Valley, a sad but necessary event (at the time) in our history. Continued south on RTE 395 to Lone Pine and RTE 136 to RTE 190 and the desolation (pic 2) of Death Valley engulfed us almost immediately. We stopped at the Panamint Springs "Resort"(pic 3) had a beer and decided to push on to Beatty Nevada for the night and tour Death Valley in the early morning. Good plan because after we left Panamint we encountered a car fire (pic 4) and the road was shut down for 2 and 1/2 hours! And there we were trying to find shade which we did behind a van and the fire department mulled around the scene with their heads up their asses and no one making a decision to let traffic proceed even though the fire had been extinguished in the first 15 minutes! We finally arrived in Beatty @7:30pm checked in to the Motel 6 (brand new and nice).
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