For our first adventure, we decided to hike to Darwin Falls, west of Panamint Springs.  This is a year round water fall, in Death Valley, who knew !  It is a moderate hike with a little bit of scrambling over some large rocks.  When you get close to the falls, there is water, and amazing lush growth along the creek.  What a beautiful and special place.  After we hiked back to the truck, we decided to drive out to the Panamint Dunes, the most remote dunes in the park.  The road was poor but the sights were spectacular.  Again, every time we get off the main road, it is a wonderful adventure.

Darwin Falls

 Panamint Dunes

Well we picked up the Airstream from Paramount RV in Reno NV, they installed our new solar system.  We added:
2- 200 watt solar panels
2-AGM 120 amp hour batteries
300 wat solar inverter
Solar converter
remote sensor controller 
and a plug-in to add portable panels

Death Valley here we come!  Planning on staying at Bailey's Hot spring in Beaty NV, then dropping into the valley on the 1st.  With this system we should be able to keep the camera,iPad, iPod and phone charged.  When did it start to be so complicated to travel.  The Kindles hold a charge for weeks, so they are not the problem.  Excited to try the new system out and see how everything works.  We have a lot of dry camping planed this year.

Figuring out this Blogging stuff

I have spent a ridiculous amount of a beautiful day sitting in front of the computer trying to figure out how to set up a blog.  This platform is popular and free and I can find "how to" videos on Youtube!  Thank goodness.  There are labels, pages and of course gadgets.  Changing the template makes all of the above look totally different.  I have lost pages, then found them later.  I am cross-eyed and scrambled and still not sure I am where I want to be.  I keep getting info on how to make money..... haha! That is way too hard for this gal.  I did manage to make pages and have posted photos to most of them.  I am trying to get this figured out before we head to Death Valley February 1st.

We are planning on camping in Death Valley, Furnace Creek Campground from the 1st through the 8th, then moving to Valley of Fire, NV.  I guess there are lots of hiking trails, petroglyphs and great photo ops.  After a visit in St. George with my mother, homeward bound around the middle of the month.  We spent a week last year around this same time and had a blast, need to see all of the big attractions we missed last year.

Goldfield, NV

One of the art installations in Goldfield NV

Dry waterfall on Natural Bridge hike DV

Zubranski Point

Scotty's Castle

Salt Creek