Appletree Inn Richfield

... to get there quickly, so what could go wrong, right?<br><br>So after we finally got Chris (Apples) out of the first ditch, we thought again that we would be good to go for the rest of the way. The small road had turned into a dirt road, see, and then it climbed into areas where it had snowed. We all slid some, but chris's car being both the only automatic and the one with worn tires made for a bad combination ...

Well, today didn't start out too promising; especially after watching the Weather Channel and seeing the extensiveness of the storm through the mountain states. And, it snowed all night, lightly, in Ely, NV where I stayed last night. Still snowing this morning, and I woke up as I went to bed with the sniffles; that didn't make me feel good about braving the white stuff and the cold and wind. But, nothing ventured, nothing gained and all that. Besides ...

October 3-6, 2008 We met up with our friend, Mike, from Las Vegas for a weekend of fun, sun, and fishing in Fish Lake, Utah. Well, we certainly had fun, but sun and fish were hard to come by. In fact, it snowed the first day! This was the first snow that Bob and I have seen on our trip! Actually, the light coat of snow contrasted with the golden and red aspens and the ...

... steep hill ended in a dead end. We laughed. I knew we'd have to go back the way we came. When we got to the edge of the hill I panicked and crouched down and slid on my hands and feet ( imagine skiing ) all the way down, as Dave walked along and made it look quite easy. On the way back we decided to destoy some ant hills and collect some colored rocks. All in a days fun.

... We couldn't find any real information about what was going on, except for the fact that it was indeed a wild fire. (We had some better views once we were in the National Park). We arrived at Arches, located on the middle Eastern side of Utah, at about 4:30PM. We gathered some maps and took off across the park. The various arches, rock formations, and sights are scattered across a rather large area. So you drive around, park, and either view from a ...

A few more bus jobs for Neil, more laundry and blogging for Mel. Another nice dip in the pool for Mel, first one of the trip for Neil, then just chilling out really! <br><br>Distance travelled: 0 miles <br><br>Total distance travelled: 3103 miles <br><br>Days on road: 32 <br><br>States visited: 6 <br><br>National Parks visited: 6

Not a lot to report today. Beautiful weather. Nice clean camp site. Mel's been doing laundry and blogging and Neil's been doing all kinds of things to the bus like replacing the paper-masking tape joins in the electrics with proper electrical ...

Awoke to blue sky and this time it looked set to stay for the day. After a couple of hours drive north, following the Sevier River along the valley floor, we arrived in Richfield, a sizeable town. Much to Mel's delight, there was another all-singing, all-dancing, Asda-like Wal Mart. So after stocking up on groceries and Chip having an ...

... towns off I-15 to the South - they were nothing...not even worth the endless road to them. We were getting quite depressed really. However things became a real rush after we got back as we decided to visit the cinema - so we "cooked" our lasagne washed down with some beer and got to the cinema about 7.55pm for the 8pm showing. The cinema was the "classic" version - a little booth at the front, no-one much in the line and it cost $5 each to ...

... back to Fillmore via Hwy100 where we then spent an hour around the pool. We are kinda bored now....Vegas the second time around was nothing new and whilst the scenery here is amazing we're three days in a small town in a desert with not much to do. We tried the restaurant attached the the BW in town and it was as bad as the previous night albeit they served beer/wine. We had salmon which would have been lovely if it had been freshly cooked but ...