Death Valley National Park - March 29-31, 2013

 John and Christine at 282 feet below sea level

View of Death Valley from Dante's Peak

For Easter weekend, I drove from San Francisco to Death Valley to visit with my sister Cathy's family while they were out west for their spring break.  While Death Valley is the largest national park in the lower 48 states, we were able to get around pretty easily from 282 feet below sea level at Badwater to several thousand feet above sea level to take in the views.  Furnace Creek Inn was an oasis in the desert where we gathered for dinner at the end of each day.  Once the sun went down, the sky sparkled with more stars than one can imagine.