Rhyolite Beatty

On US 85 north of Vegas, the road streaches to the horizon.  At Beatty, Nevada, we turned onto 374 toward Death Valley, stopping just west to look at a ghost town named Rhyolite  Alex said the goast town creeped him ...

... !  Death Valley, what an incredibly amazing place! We started our trip just outside of Death Valley National Park at Rhyolite, a ghost town.  It was once a thriving mining town, and in 1907 had electricity, mains water, phones, newspapers, ...

... who came to live here and a post office was also established.  The 3 story bank even had electricity and indoor plumbing.  Rhyolite had a general store that was supposed to rival modern day Wal-mart.  It is now what is called a "Ghost ...

... a quick pit stop at the visitors centre to see the museum and get a map, then headed on down to Badwater, the lowest point in the United States at over 200 feet below sea level.  It was so hot when we got out of the car at Badwater, that we had a ...