{"id":9577,"date":"2022-03-12T13:41:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T21:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=9577"},"modified":"2022-03-14T15:29:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T22:29:26","slug":"dv22-salty-spacemen-%f0%9f%9a%80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2022\/03\/12\/dv22-salty-spacemen-%f0%9f%9a%80\/","title":{"rendered":"DV22: Salty Spacemen 🚀"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

[Galleries: Trains<\/a> and Spacemen<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our second full day of desert adventures saw us awaken from a fairly brutal night. I’d been unable to locate our campsite, leading to lots of circling in the dark before finally, in desperation, picking a bare patch of gravel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercifully Hen had long since nodded off, but the next hours featured me struggling to sleep on the van floor before he woke up & we stretched out the bed. (Oddball upside: Spotting a midnight coyote patrolling the campground just a few feet from us.) Little did I know that our cousin Sarah Murray was sleeping not more than a few campsites away\u2014but that’s a story for another day!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We skedaddled down to catch some morning light on an old engine of the Death Valley Railroad, bringing our Lego selves & engineers in tow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We followed up by making the most of the tourist-gouging breakfast buffet, carrying off approximately 936 buttermilk biscuits. Hen kinda overdid it, as you can see in our gallery<\/a>. 😛 Now suitably refueled, we explored the nearby visitors center & ruins of some old borax works<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Soon after, our Adobe friends began to roll in, and we strategized about our photography plans at Badwater Basin, the nearby dry lake. Hen had thought ahead & brought along a collection of vintage Lego spacemen & vehicles, including a number from my childhood. It was particularly special to me that Henry chose to include a moon buggy through whose windows I remember peering up at the stars while my mom drove us home from Rockford, circa 1981.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While our friends conducted an eye-popping photo shoot with a talented acrobat performing handstands atop a stack of chairs (!)…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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…we enjoyed ourselves creating a lunar exploration. Check out the full gallery<\/a> from the outing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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