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Some people are opting for a simpler approach. Babs McDonald, 49, and her husband Ken Cordell, 59, of Athens, Ga., have already bought plots in Ramsey Creek Preserve, a 33-acre South Carolina cemetery dedicated to environmentally friendly burials. They shudder at the thought of going the "conventional route"--being embalmed and then buried in a fancy casket. "Just dig a hole, put me in it, then cover me back up," says McDonald. Come that day, they plan to be buried dressed in jeans and T shirts and wrapped in cotton shrouds. Says Cordell, an environmental scientist: "I figure...
...operated by founder Kip Bedell. The wine, including a 1999 Merlot and a tasty raspberry dessert wine, can be sampled in a newly renovated room that features a rotating exhibit of works from Lynne's personal collection of contemporary art. A few miles down the road is Corey Creek Vineyards, also a Lynne property, which offers premium Chardonnay...
...Forty-Niners. You can still find remains of a few short-lived gold, silver and copper mines in the mountains, but the real fortunes in Death Valley were made with "white gold": borax. The first big operation, the Harmony Borax Works (1883-88), led to the settlement of Furnace Creek. Borates were scraped off yellow badlands in nearby Mustard Canyon, refined by Chinese laborers and pulled 165 miles to market in Mojave on the famous 20-mule-team wagons. Remnants of the original wagons, with their giant, 7-ft.-high wheels, are on display at Furnace Creek...
...other major man-made attraction is the Furnace Creek Inn itself, built in the 1920s at the base of the Funeral Mountains. With travertine walkways, red-tiled roof and elegantly understated European decor, the inn soon attracted politicians, businessmen and, in due time, the Hollywood crowd, who used Death Valley as a backdrop for hundreds of movies, television shows and commercials...
...seasons here, is still discovering new things. There are the mysterious moving boulders on the Racetrack's remote dry lake bed, for example, or the beehive-shaped charcoal kilns of Wildrose Canyon. Just the other day Woodruff came across a scenic Depression-era back road that runs between Furnace Creek Ranch and Stovepipe Wells. "The magic of this place," he says, "makes me hunger for Death Valley more each year...