and earths broken skin. an eerie evening filled with beautiful sounds of invisible birds, motor tunes of cars that weren’t there and alarming footsteps in the middle of the night had us geared up and armed with what our needed defenses offered. in the silence of another sunny day, a welcome meditation spot on a nearby hill developed on approach to a graveyard, further down a corpse of a lamb, near the truck. good bye death valley, you were truly interesting.