Postcard from a Hot and Dusty Land

I originally posted this picture over at Paseos (my photoblog), but I liked it so much I thought I'd cross post it here. My recent backpacking trip in the Paria Canyon made me nostalgic for the desert and I went digging for some more photos from those hot and dusy lands.

These photos are from a couple of years ago when Jen and I were driving from Las Vegas to Victoria on the back end of our big trip (about the time I wrote this rather rambling entry).

My digital camera was stole in Madrid so we were using an old film camera at the time. The photos scanned poorly but they sort of work - in a 1960's washed out vacation snapshots postcard sort of way.

Sort of.

Anyway, from top left we have Mono Lake, Califoria; Death Valley National Park; Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada; Valley of Fire again; Death Valley sand dunes; a strech of desert west of Death Valley; the dance hall in Darwin, Califoria, and Mono Lake again.