The Road to Death Valley

We are starting our journey to Death Valley this morning. As early as this morning we had not decided which direction to head, do we take the rainy coast route or cold eastern route that makes us cross over a pass that as of six-thirty was 25 degrees. We took what was behind door number two and will go east riding away from the rain. We may have to wait a while for the ice to clear on hwy 58 and thats ok because there is no big hurry. This will be the biggest shift in temperature I have ever experienced in the course of a week, riding in the thirties in the north and the possibility of 110 degrees at Death Valley.