Driving the deserts

Running away from furious weather – but starwars-tic sceneries outside till ‘back to Las Vegas’

๋น„์†์„ ๋šซ๊ณ  ๋‚˜์™”๋Š”๋ฐ Las Vegas๋Œ์•„๊ฐˆ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋™์ชฝ์€ ๋์—†๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋ง‰…

2023.2

I-15 Las Vegas to Barstow

I think I have passed this road maybe 3 times in my life but I don’t remember any sceneries of the road

First was after spending all night by walking the entire strip and I was a shot-gun so half sleeping :). Second was the time when the entire sceneries was covered with snow. and Last time I was simply driving at night to LA so all I remember is full darkness.

Original plan was cutting thru Mojave but the road was closed for several days ๐Ÿ˜ฆ so had to take a detour via Freeway but at least I got the skimming taste of Mojave desert. ๐Ÿ™‚

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๊ณ  ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์ด๊ธธ์€ ๋ช‡๋ฒˆ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ€๊ธด ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ๊ฒฝ์น˜๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ์ง€๋‚œ ๊ธฐ์–ต์ด ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์—†๋‹ค…ใ…Žใ…Ž

๋Œ€์ถฉ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด๋ณด๋‹ˆ ๊ธฐ์–ต๋‚˜๋Š”๊ฑด ์ด๊ธธ์„ ํ•œ ์„ธ๋ฒˆ ์ •๋„ ์ง€๋‚œ๊ฑฐ ๊ฐ™์€๋ฐ ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์€ ์ฒ˜์Œ ์™”์„๋•Œ ๋ฐค์ƒˆ ๊ฑธ์–ด๋‹ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๋™ํ–‰ํ•ด์ฃผ์…จ๋˜ ํ˜•๋‹˜ ๋ถ€๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์ง‘์—๊ฐ€์„œ ์ž์ž๊ณ  ํ•ด์„œ ๋น„๋ชฝ์‚ฌ๋ชฝ์ƒํƒœ์—์„œ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ€์„œ ๊ธฐ์–ต์ด ์—†๊ณ ….ใ…Žใ…Ž

๋‘๋ฒˆ์งธ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ”์„ ๋•Œ๋Š” ํญ์„ค์— ๋ฌปํ˜€์„œ ๋ˆˆ๋ฐญ์†์„ ๋‹ฌ๋ ค๊ฐ„ ์—„ํ•œ ๊ธฐ์–ต์ด๊ณ …

์„ธ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ”์„๋• ํ•ด๊ฐ€ ์ง€๊ณ  ๋‚œ ์ดํ›„๋ผ ์น ํ‘๊ฐ™์€ ์–ด๋‘ ๋งŒ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ์ด๋ฒˆ์—” ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ์‚ฌ๋ง‰์„ ์ข€ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ”๋‹ค.

์•„์‰ฌ์šด๊ฑด ์›๋ž˜๋Š” Mojave๋ฅผ ๋šค๊ณ  ๊ฐ€๋ ค๊ณ  ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ์ถœ๋ฐœํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ๋‚ ์”จ๊ฐ€ ์ข‹์ง€ ์•Š์•„ ๋ชจํ•˜๋น„ ๊ด€ํ†ตํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธธ์„ ์ดํ‹€๋™์•ˆ ํ์‡„ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋น„๋ณด์— ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ Freeway๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ”๋‹ค.

Mojave์‚ฌ๋ง‰ ๋ง๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ˆ˜๋ฐ• ๊ฒ‰๋งŒ ํ•ฅ์•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฒผ์—ˆ๊ตฌ๋‚˜..

2023.2

Bye Las Vegas

์ด๋ฒˆ์— ์ผ์ •์ƒ Mojave๋ฅผ ์ง์ ‘ ๋ณด์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋Š”๊ฒŒ ์ข€ ์•„์‰ฝ๊ธด ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ญ ์˜†์œผ๋กœ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ”์œผ๋‹ˆ ๋‹ค์Œ ๋ฒˆ์— Joshua Tree๊ฐˆ๋•Œ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ฑธ๋กœ… ๋ˆˆ์€ ์—†์œผ๋‹ˆ ํ›จ์”ฌ ํŽธํ•˜๊ธด ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ I-15๋ฒˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ˜• ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ์ธ์ง€ ๋ชฉ์ ์ง€์— 2์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋Šฆ๊ฒŒ ๋„์ฐฉ… ์‚ฐ์•…์—ฌํ–‰์€ ๊ณ„์†๋œ๋‹ค..

Mountain Pass travel continued with leaving Las Vegas to California..

2021.12

Death Valley National Park: Dante’s View

์ด ๋‚˜๋ผ๋Š” ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ์ข€๋งŒ ๊ดด์ƒํ•˜๋ฉด – ํ˜น ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„  ๋„๊นจ๋น„๋กœ ์นญํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด – ์ฃผ๋กœ Devil/์•…๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์ƒ๋ช…์ด๋‚˜ ์‹ ๊ณ„์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋กœ ์นญํ•œ๋‹ค..ใ…Žใ…Ž (์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๊ด€๊ณ„์ƒ ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ”์ง€๋งŒ Devil’s Golfcourse๋„ ์žˆ์Œ..) ํ•œ๊ตญ์—” ๋งˆ๊ณ„์ธ์ฒœ ์ •๋„์˜ ์• ๊ต ์™ธ์—” ‘๋งˆ’๋ฅผ ์นญํ•˜๋Š”๊ฑด ๋ณธ์ ์ด ์—†๋Š”๊ฑฐ ๊ฐ™์€๋ฐ…^^

Death Valley์˜ Badwater Basin์ด ์ œ์ผ ์ž˜ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ๊ผญ๋Œ€๊ธฐ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‚˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅผ๊นŒ..Dante’s View๋ž€๋‹ค..ใ…Žใ…Ž

Dante’s View – amazing! wondered for few min because of longer drive up from main roads but definitely worth-while

2021.12

Death Valley National Park: Zabriskie Point

๋ณด๋‹ค๋ณด๋‹ˆ McDonald์—์„œ ํŒŒ๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋‹๋ผ ์•„์ด์Šคํฌ๋ฆผ์— ์ตธ์ฝ” dip์ด ๋จน๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์ง€๋Š”๊ฑด ์™œ์ผ๊นŒ.. ๐Ÿ™‚

Reminds me the McDonald’s Chocolate dip on Soft Ice cream..

2021.12

Death Valley National Park: Artist’s Drive

์—ฌ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์ •๋ง ์™€๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋˜ ๊ณณ์ด์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋ชป๋ณด๋‚ด๊ณ  ์™€์„œ ์•„์‰ฝ๋‹ค….๋‹ค์Œ์— ๋‹ค์‹œ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ์žˆ์„๋•Œ ๊ผญ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ฑธ๋กœ…

Unfortunately, had to drive out quick – so keeping this place as a next visit

2021.12

Death Valley National Park: Badwater Basin

๋ง๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ์†Œ๊ธˆ๋ฐญ… ์—„์ฒญ ์งœ๋‹ค…ใ…‹ใ…‹ ํ•œํŽธ ์šฐ์œ ๋‹ˆ ์‚ฌ๋ง‰๊ฐ™์ด reflection์ด ์‹ฌํ•œ ํ‰ํ‰ํ•œ ๊ณณ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๊ณ ..ใ…Žใ…Ž ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ƒ ์šธํ‰๋ถˆํ‰ํ•œ ์†Œ๊ธˆ๋ฐญ์„ ๊ด€๊ด‘๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ๋ฐŸ์•„์„œ ํ‰ํ‰ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ ๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹Œ๊ฐ€ ์‹ถ๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•จ…ใ…Žใ…Ž (๊ณ ๋กœ ํ›„์— ์™€๋ณด๋ฉด ํ•˜์–€ ์†Œ๊ธˆํ‰์ง€๊ฐ€ ๋” ๋„“์–ด์ ธ์žˆ์ง€ ์•Š์„๊นŒ? ใ…Žใ…Ž)

Salty & White place at the bottom of valley; -282 feet or -86 meter ๐Ÿ™‚

2021.12

Death Valley National Park: Furnace Creek & Panamint Valley

์ด์ œ ์ง„์งœ ํ•ด๋ฐœ (-)๊ตฌ๊ฐ„์œผ๋กœ ๊ธธ์ด ์ง„์ž……. ํ•œ์ฐธ์„ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค ๋ณด๋ฉด ์˜ค์•„์‹œ์Šค ๊ฐ™์€ ๋™๋„ค๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์˜จ๋‹ค..์—ญ์„ค์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋™๋„ค ์ด๋ฆ„์ด Furnace Creek.. (๊ฐ„๋‹จํžˆ ์ ์‹ฌ ๋–ผ์šฐ๊ณ  ์ฐจ๋„ ๋ฐฐ๊ณ ํ”ˆ๊ฒƒ๋งŒ ์‚ด์ง ์ฑ„์›Œ์ฃผ๊ณ … (๊ธฐ๋ฆ„๊ฐ’์ด ๋ฌด๋ ค $6.60/Gallon ์ •๋„ ํ•œ๋“ฏ… ํ—ˆ๋‚˜ Las Vegas์—์„œ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฑ„์›Œ์˜จ ์ฐจ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌด์‚ฌํžˆ ๋น ์ ธ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋ ค๋ฉด ์–ด๋А ์ •๋„ ๋ˆˆ๋ฌผ์„ ๋จธ๊ธˆ๊ณ  ์ฑ„์›Œ์ค˜์•ผํ•œ๋‹ค..)

Now the road goes down further to below sea levels at the bottom of valley

2021.12

Rhyolite, NV – aka Ghost Town

์ด๋ฒˆ ์—ฌํ–‰์˜ ์ฃผ์š” ๋ชฉ์ ์ง€์˜€๋˜ ์•„๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๋˜ Death Valley National Park – ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ๋Š” ๊ตญ๋ฆฝ๊ณต์› ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€๊ธฐ ์ „์— ์ž ๊น ๋ณผ๋งŒํ•œ ๊ณ ์ŠคํŠธํƒ€์šด (์‚ฌ์‹ค ์ด๋Ÿฐ ํํ—ˆ๊ฐ€ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ธฐ ๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ƒ ์ € ๋ฏธ์ˆ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ ๋ณด๋ ค๊ณ ..) ํ•˜๋ฃจ์ข…์ผ ์ผ์ • ์žก๊ณ  ์œ„์—์„œ ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์•„๋ž˜๋กœ ํ›‘์œผ๋ ค๋Š” ๊ณ„ํš์˜ ์ฒซ์Šคํƒ‘..

Death Valley National Park was one of the main reason for this long road trip.. and first stop was just before getting into the park area – Rhyolite

2021.12

Las Vegas Strip

๋‚ด์ฐจ๋กœ Las Vegas๋ฅผ ๋Œ์•„๋‹ค๋‹Œ ์ƒ‰๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ฒฝํ—˜… ๐Ÿ™‚ ์ƒ๊ณ„ํ˜• ์ƒํ™œ์ธ๋‹ต๊ฒŒ ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ํฌ์ธํŠธ๋กœ ๋ชจ์€ Strip๋ถ์ชฝ Las Vegas Convention Center ๊ฑด๋„ˆํŽธ ๋ถ์ชฝ๋™๋„ค์— ์ƒˆ๋กœ์—ฐ Hilton ํ˜ธํ…”์—์„œ ํˆฌ์ˆ™ํ•ด์ฃผ์…จ๋‹ค… ๐Ÿ™‚

ํ•œํŽธ ๋‚ ์ด ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค ์ด๋ธŒ์ธ์ง€๋ผ ๊ทธ๋™์•ˆ Youtube๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ํ•™์Šตํ•ด ๋†“์€ ์‹๋‹น์€ ์–ด๋”œ ๊ฐ€๋„ ๋งŒ์›์— No Walk-In… ๋ญ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ฌด์ œํ•œ ์Šค์‹œ ๋ถ€ํ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์•„ ๋ฐฐํ„ฐ์ง€๊ฒŒ ๋“œ์…”์ฃผ์…จ๋‹ค..

Felt weird to drive my own car in Las Vegas ๐Ÿ™‚ Struggled a bit to do a walk in at some known spots for sushi buffet but found a good one. Finally at the end, enjoyed the good rest at new hotel – Hilton Resort World at Strip with full stomach ๐Ÿ™‚

2021.12