So the only previous time I'd been to Death Valley, I stayed to the blacktop. But this time, this time I thought I'd try the dirt road capabilities of my rented Infiniti G35 Coupe. A few miles north of Ashford Millon Route 178 you can turn left onto the West Side Road. Aptly named, this 40-mile dirt road takes you to the west of Badwater Basin.
This view is looking south, in the direction from which I have come. The landscape here reminds me of parts of Oman – graded roads, scrub vegetation and mountains. In Oman this would be a ‘wadi' – albeit it a very wide one!
Of course, this view would look completely different to me had I been hiking or on horseback – those mountains would have been hours rather than minutes away!
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