Overland Hotel & Saloon Pioche

... some essential shopping – no really - you don’t want me not to buy shampoo and soap. The rest of the day was spent on working out how the rest of this trip will pan out. I now have the last week booked – watch out Vegas cos I will be there with Big Mark, Carlos and Mas – it could get messy.

What I could not find. An outdoor equipment store like an REI or a Cotswolds. You’d think in a city ...

... decided I needed a variety pack for the long trip and good as Sirius radio is I soon get bored of all that 'alternative’. So playlist 0057 Top Tricile Tracks was selected. This is basically anything rated 4 or 5 stars and as I reckon that is about a third of my collection I made up a word for the top third (you know, like decile or quartile). I had hit track 133 – The Real Me by the Who by the time I pulled into the Hilton Garden Inn at St George.

... a pretty amazing sight watching a field get watered with one of those long wheeled sprinkler systems. The entire crop and the gear doing the watering was covered in ice and ice-cycles from the night. Further testament to te early winter hear in Nevada. Oh, I almost made it 7 riding through some mud. (I kept upright but did manage to get me and my bike all muddy. Wahoo!) Dave found us another dirt road to take as an alternate and it was a beaut. (E. Walker Rd for those ...

From Brian: So we've been driving from Los Angeles for three days. Of course we're on our way to Washington DC. Last night we stayed at the Luxor, the large pyramid in Vegas that doesn't have 'elevators' it has 'inclinators', which are more like the Wonkavators in the Movie. Anyhow, they don't go up and down but diagonally up the corners of the building. Last night after a hard night of losing money at most all the casinos we passed on ...

Las Vegas: You see it on TV, you hear all about it....so you have to see the bright lights and razzle dazzle of Vegas when you come to LA. I was glad to meet up with Jade, a fellow backpacker I met in a hostel in Singapore. A small world! Together we set off for Vegas forgetting it was a long week-end so the roads were extra busy. The roads to Vegas are pretty straight with desert and mountains either way ...

... at. A Polygymist used to live there and he had a smoke house where he used to hang meat up to smoke and you can still smell it. After setting up camp in fruita by some lovely toilets with heaters inside and a sink for dumping 'grey' water we did a hike to an Arch. I taped up my feet, but the tape came off and I had to walk super slow to stop my shoes from rubbing while thinking the whole time, "Stupid shoes, I hate you, how can I take you back now I've gotten you ...

We decided to have a cruisy day today and only drove for a few hundred miles to a little town called Ely in Nevada. What a town!! We felt like we were in the middle of some movie set, with the film being based in the old mid-west 1920's and then the rest of the world on the opposite street! There were dodgy old casinos with seedy men at every turn, old saloon's filled with smoke and we ...

Let's see, I left you in Mojave didn't I??? Don't let ANYONE ever leave you in Mohave!! I started watching the tube in my room about 6AM in the hopes the wind would be lower than hurricane force!!! They said it wasn't going to be as bad as yesterday so I packed up and headed north to Yosemite. I got 10 miles out of town and there was little or no wind, a great road with little traffic and I was listening to a super "oldies rock and roll ...

DD and DS stayed in Vegas with the family while DH and I drove SS to a ski trip outing he had at Brian Head. The drive was nice. We got him settled in with his group at The Lodge at Brian Head and then DH and I went skiing. The skiing was ok. Came back to the lodge and had a great nosh dinner (bar food) in the lounge in front of the fireplace. Then DH and I drove back to Vegas.