Best Western Richfield Inn

... one of them brand new and very lovely) and took a look at the exhibits as well as getting my Federal parks Golden Age pass. So, from here on out it'll be chep and easy to visit any federal facility - parks, Forest Service campgrounds, etc. During the drive to the Great Basin park, I travelled through Spring Valley, which is lovely and dramatic with high peaks on every side of it. There was a light, powdered sugar dusting on all the mountains around the ...

... of Fish Lake made for quite a beautiful landscape, as you can see from the pictures. The area is part of the National Forest land, and once beyond the lake area, there are many forest roads leading to solitude and beautiful camping areas. And lots of free range cattle! Mike chauffeured us in his SUV around the area, through the mud and snow, to get a look at 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.

... at least we could survive until our next meal (which ended up being a Denny's in Salina at like 10PM, because we refused to eat Burger King, and I swear to you all there was nothing else for 100's of miles any direction). We almost ran out of fuel on a 100 mile stretch of open road , without service areas. We ran on empty (with the fuel light on) for almost 60 miles, literally driving 50 miles an hour and coasting down hills. Thankfully, we came upon 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! Distance travelled: 0 miles Total distance travelled: 3103 miles Days on road: 32 States visited: 6 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 connectors! Nice dip in the pool for Mel, nice dinner, chilling out, beer and "24"! Distance travelled: 0 miles Total distance travelled: 3103 miles Days on road: 31 States visited: 6 National Parks visited: 6

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 oil change (yes they even do that) we found a camp-site that we can park up at for a few days. It's a KOA, which are usually quite expensive, but ...

... information that the camp hosts had given MJ and he'd only half taken in. The roads are two-lane, flat and empty. We just drove and eventually came across these lava flows from now dead volcanoes which are like huge lumps of black/red coal about 20-40 feet high in long ridges. Very spectacular. We drove on and came to a dirt track - still a good surface, now completly lost but pressed on based on the assumption that "it must go somewhere". Quite ...

... UT. I would update with pictures (Heather went nuts again and took some amazing shots from the back of Mike's bike), but the Internet is not working in the hotel. We plan on getting up early so we can get to Reno tomorrow night and hang with Cory and the insta-family.... Side note - Rick's height/mountain phobia got the best of ...

... nowhere. After the rain storm we had to make a 100-mile detour because of rock slides, which took us back up on I-70 and then down into the Moab area, which is the location of the Arches and Canyonlands National Parks and the Dead Horse Point State Park. For those who are following carefully, you will notice that we are only about 3 hours south of our first blog entry in Vernal, Utah. When we leave here we head south into Arizona through ...