The rocky scenery is starting to turn red, and a while back we went through a kind of rocky valley type pass between the hills. Fascinating scenery although a small danger of falling rocks. The road surface left a little to be desired. In Arizona (which we passed through very briefly) and Utah (which we're in now) the roads don't seem to be quite as good as in Nevada.
The temperature when we arrived in Vegas last night was 105 degrees, but now we're down to a cool 90 on the road (fahrenheit). Sensibly today we don't have the convertible hood down, as we would soon end up as burnt toast. Must say, it was great to have an air conditioning unit in the hotel last night that didn't sound like a helicopter flying overhead, that which was our experience from the last motel in San Diego!
Oh, and we just had a few momentary drops of rain here! We do have a large grey cloud overhead which is hugging the mountains, so makes sense. Emily is being persuasive on the accelerator to move us away from it.
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It's 9:15 and we're just catching a spot of dinner before driving for about an hour and a half to our next motel. From there we will drive to the grand canyon tomorrow morning which is about four hours drive from there....oh, dinner has arrived...
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So, today has been long. Shortly after my writing above earlier it hammered it down with rain for a bit near Bryce. When we got there though it had all stopped. It was a lot cooler and not humid - nice! We checked out the visitor centre and got maps etc then had the 14 view point challenge (what I now call the McBryce Happy Meal). Here, you basically drive to the very end of all the points, then stop by them one by one, taking photos japenese tourist style along the way. Wanting to resist this urge, we only took photos where good ones could be had - well, there were a few weak moments, but we mostly did well. It was like a race between all the cars. However, what pleased me (and Emily less so) was the smorgasbord of dead trees available for photos - brilliant!
Oh, and when we were at the visitor centre we had a big problem as we couldn't get into the Mustang!!! Turns out after a few minutes that we were trying to get into someone else's Mustang. They happened to have exactly the same colour etc etc. The only reason I noticed was because they had a juice bottle inside the cabin and then I twigged. Turns out ours was three spaces up, obscured by you'll never guess, oh another monster truck!
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We finished the day with a last doors sunset shoot on the final one of the McBryce Happy Meal. Thankfully by this point the others had all packed up and gone home, so we had peace while the light faded away. A magical day.
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