Hampton Inn Richfield, Ut

... irrigation wheels too. But what fascinates me is the geology of this land. It would change with adequate water, both it's character and it's climate. And right now it's dry and desolate but magnificent and awe inspiring! I've ended today's travel in Salina, UT, having driven about 275 miles, visited a national park and a geological dig site, seen some incredibly magnificent mountains and valleys, been snowed on, hailed on, rained on, and sunshined on. Not a bad day!

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 ...

Today deciding that we'd had enough laziness (not really) we went for a hike. Nice enough until I made the decision to go up this huge steep hill. We walked along while I wondered how I'd get back down that huge hill. After another series of small hills we figuered we'd hit the other side of the mountain and we'd be able to come back around on flat terrain...No. The ...

... lifeless 110 stretch (again, with no stops for the entire length), but because there were long stretches of steep down-hills, we were able to break our speed record, 111MPH. Don't worry, it was a long, straight highway with 2 lanes each way and no one else on it for miles; but we did turn the headlights off so no one could see us. This is our last night on the road. Tomorrow we have a couple more sight-seeing spots to visit and then on to Vegas. We will ...

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 ...

We put a lot of miles on yesterday as we continued our westward journey. Utah was suprisingly beautiful. We did not anticipate the splendor of the mountains and vast array of colors. It was pretty desolate so we drove further than planned. We ended up stopping at the Butch Cassidy Campground. It was not as "foo foo" as our last accomodations, but it was clean and the people ...

... 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 ...

... DAMN, it's cold! Well, I've survived a couple of days here at Ian's parents' house. It's been fun meeting them and their pets (two pugs - Sam and Floyd and two cats - Felix and Milo). I don't know how to describe the feeling of knowing I"m in the western part of the US...some of it is obvious, like the huge Wasatch Range that you can see from many of the windows in the house or the sage ...