Death Valley - Part 1

This past week I visited Death Valley and way too much took place for me to tell everything in one post. So I'm breaking it up and will just give you the basics and details of day 1 (travel from Detroit to Death Valley).

Typical Day
1) Get up at about 6:30am
2) Drive out to desired location
3) Hike until about noon
4) Have lunch
5) Climb, hike, visit, etc until about 6pm
6) Drive back to Stovepipe Wells
7) Make soup on a camping stove
8) Go to bed about 8pm

Death Valley Details
Low Temperature ~ 35 degrees Fahrenheit
High Temperature ~ 60 degrees Fahrenheit
Low Elevation = 282 feet below sea level (lowest point in the Western Hemisphere)
High Elevation = 11,049 ft (Telescope Peak)
Our Campground Elevation ~ 2000 ft (Emigrant)
Everything is weird/interesting

Day 1 (Wednesday)
1) Flew from Detroit to Las Vegas
2) Stopped by Nancy’s (Troy's dad's first cousin) to get camping equipment
3) Drove to Pahrump & got groceries...last stop before Death Valley

Troy driving to Death Valley...he did all the driving.

4) Drove into Death Valley

Distant view of Death Valley taken from the car.

5) Saw Harmony Borax Works
6) Saw Devil’s Cornfield (a bunch of weird shaped cactus in nearly rows)
7) Saw an amazing sunset

Sunset from over the Cottonwood mountains.

8) Saw the sand dunes (largest sand dunes I've ever saw...they look pretty big even against the back drop of 10,000+ ft mountains)
9) Setup camp at Emigrant as the sun was setting

Our campground and convertible PT cruiser. These two pictures show pretty much the entire campground, and thus the reason why its free to stay there.

10) Saw the most stars I've ever seen in a night...that's saying quite a bit considering I'm from Pigeon.
11) The first night I snapped this picture of the setting sun behind the mountains and got this weird thing in the picture. I don't now what this is and thus am calling it a UFO, but I actually mean it is an unidentified flying object (not aliens flying through space).

Sunset over the mountains with unidentified flying object.