California Death Valley area

Part of the elegance of the hotel structure at Death Valley Junction.

Abandoned housing area at Death Valley Junction.

Dumont Dunes, from CA-127. The dunes are an off-road vehicle site and are quite large. They're roughly 4 miles from this point; there is an almost invisible cluster of trailers/RV's in this picture (noted, and see adjacent picture).

Travel trailers or RV's at the dunes. See the link below for pictures taken at the base of the dunes at Christmas, 2006. www.ipernity.com/doc/donbrr/22308793

Didn't catch this picture at quite the right time. The day before I took this I had seen a cluster of four Mercedes SUV's leaving the Tecopa area and headed towards either Pahrump or Las Vegas. Here they were again, headed into the Dumont Dunes area. When traveling around this section of California you often see clusters of almost identical cars, sometimes with the car bodies wrapped to hide model or brand-identifying features. The general Death Valley area is used quite a bit both for testing vehicles as well as in advertisements. I've talked with drivers who are part of these sorts of groups (not Mercedes, American cars) and they've described the work as boring...

Just across from Dumont Dunes, a cluster of mountains (lava?) with developing dune areas. (Best in large sizes with black background)

Just across from Dumont Dunes, a cluster of mountains (lava?) with developing dune areas.