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Read more about the article A Week in Death Valley National Park

A Week in Death Valley National Park

Part One of Death Valley! We spent an adventure filled week in Death Valley!  Death Valley National Park is the largest national park in the lower 48.  Who knew there was so much to do and see!  Death Valley is so diverse with snow capped mountains, desert dunes, painted landscapes, waterfalls and many canyons! The first two days we had high winds with gusts up to 50 mph!  Due to the wind, we could barely see the mountains from the sand in the air! We will be featuring Death Valley over the next couple of videos!  Today we are showing the…

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An eBike Tour of Borrego Springs, CA!

Wow…What fun we have had making this video!  For a couple days we set out on our eBikes to shoot this!  As you can imagine there were lots of BLOOPERS!  Our goal is to start telling about our adventures as well as capturing them on camera.  Borrego Springs is like the TV Show “Cheers”, everybody knows your name and your always glad you came!  The postal worker knows us by name and remembered us from last winter as well as the people at the grocery store! We can ride our bikes to town (only about a mile from our campground).…

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Desert to Mountains, Palm Springs Aerial Tram!

Wednesday we left Borrego Springs and drove up to Palm Springs to the Palm Springs Aerial Tram.  This Tramway is considered an engineering marvel featuring the world’s largest rotating tram cars! Valley station starts the adventure with the elevation of 2,643’ and your destination at Mountain station has an elevation of 8,516’. Mountain station has 2 restaurants (one self-serve) and one cocktail bar.  The Mount San Jacinto State Park is just behind the tram station providing backpacking and hiking opportunities.  The temperature change from Palm Springs to Mountain Station is 30-40 degrees!  There was still several inches of snow on…

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