Upper Death Valley

When we reached the northern end of Death Valley, our lovely, brand new road came to an end and turned into gravel for the next 100+ miles.
But the benefit of driving into the remote areas of the valley is that we were all alone. The tourists stopped when the paved road did. It was magical.




The first thing we came across was this Gopher Snake.


It was the biggest one we had ever seen.




And, of course, Michael needed to move it out of the road.