Day 2 started by leaving Reno in the morning and driving 8 hours South, stopping off for occasional leg stretching, photoshooting and a rosie lee. At around 6pm we arrived at the top of Death Valley National Park and began the 30 minute decent into the park. Being a man who doesn’t like to overplan these sorts of things, I hadn’t arranged a parking spot at the campground (for which we had no camping gear anyway). After 24 hours of driving over two days, I started to look a little worried when the first two campgrounds were full.Fortunately it turned out my calculations (i.e. random luck) was sufficient and the third / final campground had plenty of spaces.

So we parked up, climbed in the back with the dogs and collapsed – staring up at the stars through the sunroof. Despite the cold, cramped space and general roughin’ it – the night went fine and a few hours later we were on the move again to Badwater (tomorrow’s pics). Here’s a quick photochronical of day 2.Shots from a combination of Olympus OM-1 / OM-4 and Zuiko lenses. Shots on Kodak Ektar 100 and Fujifilm’s Neopan 100 Acros. The first image is post processed – the rest are straight off the scanner (Nikon Coolscan 5000).

Originally shot on Ektar in colour but I couldn’t resist modifying in Photoshop.

Leaving the hotel in Reno

Parking lot, somewhere in Nevada

Akuri and our two dogs. That road in the background leads to Candelaria, an old ghost town (which we didn’t visit)

Akuri and Sora

Miles and miles of desert & straight road. You get used to that view driving through Nevada