We started the day driving up to Dante’s View which is the highest point in the park.

We will spend three more nights in Death Valley National Park before heading home.

We spent a day and a half in Joshua Tree National Park before heading to Death Valley. Donna has visited briefly many years ago.

We spent a day and a half in Joshua Tree National Park before heading to Death Valley. Donna has visited briefly many years ago, but Steve has never been there. It was a bit less expensive at Death Valley to delay our arrival a couple days and put Joshua Tree first.

We had some issues getting to Venice. There had been weather delays in Newark, NJ for the past several days. The flight from Kansas City to Newark had been canceled the previous two days. We got on the plane, but after they closed the door but before the plane pushed back, the pilot announced a three-hour delay due to approaching thunderstorms in Newark. We all got off and waited.

We got up at 6 am. I took my shower, Donna took hers last night. I am still coughing up green stuff. We made it to the train platform and got some pastries. The train was late getting in, it left 15 minutes late. It’s supposed to rain in Berlin today, we’ve had four nice days. It rained while we were on the train.

Today is our last day in Berlin. Our three-day museum pass is over, walked to Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.

Another slower start to our day. We walked to checkpoint Charlie and the museum there.

We had a slow start to the day since we don’t have to be anywhere at a certain time till this afternoon. With our river cruise and the bike tour these past few weeks, we’ve had to stick to a time schedule, so it’s nice to take a break from that.

We arrived in Berlin at the main train station at 7:20 am. We walked over to the hotel, and dropped off our luggage.