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Day 9 drive to Williams, AZ:

We bid farewell to Death Valley and drove to Williams, AZ, gateway to the Grand Canyon Railway and the Grand Canyon.

We packed up early and got underway by 5 AM in the dark. We decided to drive to Bad Water and then on south to the southern end on the National Park. It was about 75 miles, mostly in the dark. We only met 3 on-coming cars on the trip. We went east to Pahrump and then Las Vegas, then to Williams, AZ.

The "darkness" of Death Valley before sunrise is really dark. Lyndi took some artsey photos of Venus and the coming sunrise:











This part of Death Valley is about 250 feet below sea level:




We crossed over Jubilee Pass and returned to civilization.





In Williams, we checked in to the Grand Canyon Railway Hotel and got our tickets to ride the Grand Canyon Railway to the El Tovar Hotel in Grand Canyon Village tomorrow morning. We relaxed in the Pub, and enjoyed the massive historic bar that was imported from England:




Jim