If you liked this, I'd also highly recommend Jay Penner's "companion" article, which goes into more geographic detail [1], along with a Google map [2], as well as another nice map of the overall route [3]

[1] https://www.jaypenner.com/blog/the-hunt-for-death-valley-ger... [2] https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1lbwNzfGD0a0vSi... [3] https://i.redd.it/gwle2o1tdjp01.png