death valley hallucinations

i drove to another planet
at least that is what it felt like.
we entered death valley from vegas in the morning; sweaty and undernourished.
without realizing it we had slipped through a worm hole and driven onto another planet.
earth was gone.
this place with bare, sharp, growing mountains.
a drainage pit.
where water went to be reincarnated and minerals, mainly sodium, went to die.
the haze that blurred the horizon. that was moisture doing the smartest thing possible, leaving. teleporting to better climes. back to earth.
i was deeper than i had ever been but the refreshment of cold dark solitude one would expect to find almost 300 feet below sea level was missing. like i said.
i drove to another planet.