This is my second entry for this week's B&W Photo Contest - Travel:
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When you think Death Valley National Park, you think desert, sand dunes, the lowest point in the United States. It is also famous for the Twenty Mule Teams that hauled borax from near Furnace Creek to Mojave where the journey would continue by train. The 10 day trip was 165 miles over rough roads. Though these teams only ran from 1883 to 1889, they have been immortalized through ad campaigns for 20-Mule-Team Borax Soap as well as the Death Valley Days radio and tv programs.
My photo is of one of the two remaining wagons in existence..this one located at the Harmony Borax Works and the other is in front of Furnace Creek Ranch. Perfect symbol of the Old West, wouldn't you say?
We visited Death Valley in the early Spring...the weather was perfect. Summer temperatures can reach up to 120 degrees fahrenheit! Yikes!
©S.A.M., 2010 (Some Artistic Musings / Samantha J. Barnes)
Shot with a Canon PowerShot S5 IS
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It can get hotter than 120 out there. I was there the day it almost beat the hottest day ever recorded.
It was 131 degrees that day with the record being ~135.
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Oy vey! Thanks for the info...which reinforces my recommendation to go in the Spring! :D
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Very true. During the winter/spring time the weather is great.
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Very good :) I like old things :) And this looks very old :)
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Thank you! 130+ years and lots of miles...can you imagine the stories this wagon could tell? :)
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I can only dream how many :) But I think a lot :) one day I go and photography too this Death Valley :)
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You won't be disappointed. There is so much to see there...more than sand and cactus. Every mountain is a different color and there is this place called mosaic canyon that is a must see!
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Do not make me jealous :) ok .
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Just trying to prepare you. I you are going to make the trip, you don't want to miss anything, right? ;)
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Everything is possible :)
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That is a truth I have learned quite recently. :)
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the real Old West ! i love the textures of the wood - looks like very well-preserved !
and what it's around 49C omg !
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Indeed! It is amazingly well preserved. A person commented earlier that they had been there when it was 55C and that wasn't even the all-time record! A bit too toasty for me!!! ;)
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haha toasty well said ;-)
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