Mojave Desert and Death Valley, April 2011

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The focus of this weeklong car camping adventure is the Mojave Desert. We stay the entire week at a private oasis along the Amargosa River near delicious hot springs, just outside Death Valley National Park. Here Willow Creek bubbles to the surface, attracting a plethora of wildlife. The old T and T railroad (the beds battered by desert floods and home now only to coyotes and rattlesnakes) used to run through here. We head north into Death Valley and surrounding wild lands on day trips. Here the names say it all - Badwater, Dante's View and the Devil's Palette. These areas contain some of the most fantastic scenery this side of Mars. Dramatic sunsets, eerie tree yucca forests, sand dunes, rugged mountains, volcanic craters, desert tortoises, chuckwallas, coyotes, golden eagles, and abundant desert wildflowers are all found here. Exploring on foot and by car we travel the backcountry of this still Wild West. This trip always fills immediately.

DATES: April 3 to 9. April 10-16, 2011

COST: $475

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Michael (far left) and friends overlooking the Ngorongoro Crater in February 2009. I have spent every February since 1993 in Tanzania. The adventure in the Serengeti remains one of my favorite Footloose Forays trips.

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