I once stayed in a motel in Death Valley in the middle of summer. Interestingly, most of the guests there were German. I also met tourists from England.
As it happens, today is also the last day of the Badwater 135 mile race through Death Valley ending up on the Mt. Whitney foothills. Crazy.
https://www.badwater.com/event/badwater-135/
As a kid in the sixties all of my German relatives would visit and had to see Death Valley. Palm Springs was their next stop to roast in the sun.