October 2001
1 October - mail arrived
2 October - Took ferry across lake, beautiful scenery and then crossed into USA Idaho then into Montana because it was very cold at night. Field water hoses were ice sculptered.
5 October - Spoke to someone who spent night before in Yellowstone National Park, everything in his van froze. So decided to travel quicker south Idaho. The Lava Beds there were marvelous to see small plants growing on moss in lava. We met Don (Donna) and Donna from Wyoming, they were revisiting South Idaho. They offered to show us around in a geep. They did! 8 am to 6 pm, not even coffee stop. We above snowline like mountain goats. Glad we went, we so saw much, that we wouldn't have seen. We hope we meet up with them again.
The cold weather had caught up with us, so we crossed into Utah. 225 ml south was warmer. Bryce Canyon and Red Rock Canyon were marvelous, to us better than Grand Canyon. We went to North Rim Grand Canyon, as we had been South Rim before, was disappointed, after Bryce.
14 Oct - We crossed into Nevada and the start of our really good weather. We stayed on camping Mesquite in Casino, really a car park with showers. We are not gamblers, so it was cheap eating. A couple from Iowa took us for a ride out in Desert to Echo Bay. Great day, to us all new, could not believe fish climbing on each others' backs to the land fed with bread. We enjoyed it so much went back with our van. We free camped in desert, sunsets and camp fires, friendly people all there! We could only stay 3 days without generator or solar panels, but enjoyed every time we did it. We went on State Camp in Echo Bay, was disappointed was did not see wild burros. Saw droppings but no animals. Fed fish again.
24 Oct - We went into Las Vegas onto Circus Circus camping best value in Vegas, right on Strip. We enjoyed a week there, not being gamblers, food can be cheap, if prepared to look around. Free shows and lights at Freemont Street were marvelous.
31st Oct - Went south to Laughlin and on to car park at Riverside Casino. Again a cheap place for eating out, different casinos have special deals. Halloween nothing special.