03/01/2023
‘Story Behind The Picture’
I still have to pinch myself that I got the chance to take this photo..
I saw a picture of on Google a few years ago, it’s probably not the kind of thing I would have searched for, but i couldn’t stop looking at it, a weird and wonderful piece of art!
I looked up the info on it, it’s called the Ghost Rider’ and is situated in Death Valley, in a little place called Rhyolite, a ghost town in the nowhere, like seriously nowhere!!! crikey!!!
Before this, me & Miles had been toying with the idea of a Road Trip to celebrate our 20th
Anniversay in Arizona/California, but we hadn’t plan anything, it was still a bit a dream then, Sedona was the main destination, as that’s where we got married.
So I said to Miles, this road trip we’ve been talking about, shall we do it? YES was the answer, so we started planning places we both wanted to see & experience. Initially we were going to drive from Arizona to California, and a ‘little’ detour in the opposite direction to Monument Valley was a must!
I knew Miles wasn’t mad on driving too many miles along those VERY long desert roads, but they fascinated me, I had one of them on my vision board!
So I dropped the question..how do you fancy driving across Death Valley? We chatted about how fascinating would be to see, it can be a dangerous place to be if anything went wrong with the car. We read lots of stuff about it, one article said take 2 spare wheels, not just one, if you get 2 punctures you are stuck and the heat is a killer, and other scary stories too.
The place where the Ghost Rider is located is quite high up in Death Valley, so a long way to travel but we decided to go for it!
Two year later… we were there!!! I was standing right in front of THE Ghost Rider, that photo that had been stuck in my mind, I was actually THERE!! I’ve never been anywhere so still, blazing hot, silent & eerie, with nothing for as far as you can see, it was absolutely AMAZING, it was like a magical ‘nothingness’
An experience we’ll never forget!
Not sure whether to add this to my gallery.. but wld definitely be different compared to my other gallery prints!
Would you like it on your wall 🤔I’m not sure!!
