Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012 Death Valley

This morning we had a great breakfast at the clubhouse. The people who fixed the meal said they get up at 5:30am to get everything started. They had about 8 tables with coffee cups, juice cups, salt and pepper, and creamer in the center of each one. They offered waffles, eggs, sausage and biscuits with gravy. We got the meal cafeteria style and they served the coffee and orange juice.

We headed out at 9am for Death Valley. The wind was still pretty strong all the way to Amargosa. This little town consists of a small café and ice cream shop, a hotel and an opera house. They still have weekly performances here, given by Marta Becket, a 86 year old ballet dancer! She has been here performing since the early 1980’s, and all of the artwork inside the theatre (and there are wall to wall and ceiling murals) were painted by her. There were posters up that advertised her final performance here to be held in February. I’m not sure where the audience comes from, but it would be the death of this town if no one steps up to fill her shoes.

Having already had lunch in our RVs before we got to Amargoza, we headed on into Death Valley. We met two other couples when we arrived, so now we have 8 RVs in the caravan! We were very lucky to get sites all next door and across from each other! We set a community table in the center for our meals and all of us fit around the fire pit in our camping chairs. We all prepared our own meals tonight and shared sides. Before we retired, we made S’mores!!!!!!! Tomorrow we will take off exploring the valley!