Ben visits Tatooine

While we were in Death Valley, Hilary showed me a cell phone picture of Ben on the sand dunes to the north of Furnace Creek. I was reminded that those were the dunes used in filming the original Star Wars.

It had to have been the most amazing stroke of luck that the moviemakers were able to find sand dunes right here in California that looked exactly like the ones on the planet Tatooine. It must have saved them tons of money in location costs.