We had an 8 hour drive ahead of us so we planned on getting out the door by 6:00a. (more on why later.) Were able to make it out by 6:45a. We would have had only a 7 hour drive however we wanted to drive through Death Valley which added about an hour to our trip. Death Valley is home to the hottest temperatures on earth. For our visit it only made it up to 40C. I say only because on our first day in Las Vegas it got up to 43C. The hottest temperature ever in Death Valley is over 56C. As soon as you enter you can tell there is something different. The vegetation mostly disappears and the landscape is very different.
As soon as we got into the park we stopped at a very small visitors center that was nothing more than a billboard and an outhouse. There was no staff but there was a place to pay to enter the park. It's honor system and we were a bit surprised by the $30 cost. I imagine many people don't pay, especially since there was nothing on the highway saying you should. The most interesting feature we saw in the park was a lookout that looked into the valley in several directions. The landscape looks very foreign with many different colored rocks. I was definitely happy we chose to take the detour into the park.
Our destination for the day was Reno. Our plan was to make it to our hotel by 3:45p so we could go to the movie theater in our hotel. $4.00 for a movie and they were showing Avengers-Affinity War. Unfortunately our late departure and detour slowed us down and we didn't quite make it. It was all for the best because it gave us more time to tour our hotel and take in the buffet. It may take a few days for my stomach to recover from the dessert bar. We finished the evening with $20.00 of gambling at the slots before heading to the pool. Kerry was up to $26.00 and Callie and I figured she should stop. She did not. We lost it all.
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