Gas up and ready to go by 9am. Found a Harbour Freight Tool shop and did a bit of browsing. Onto the little town of Le Claire to call in on Mike & Frank of American Pickers fame. Didn't realise that they actually live in Nashville TN, will have to call in there on our way home. They had some great bikes and memorabilia, would loved to have bought the huge Elvis 'Spinout' poster they had, as it had the name of the previous owner of our TBird on it, Joe Pastern...

Today was spent driving across the farming state of Iowa. Lots of corn fields but only the remnants of last years crops. No snow today but the temperature stayed at 0c for most of the morning. By the time we got to Des Moines to visit the State Capitol Building it had reached 5c. Beautiful old building only spoilt by politicians loitering the premises. Arrived at our overnight accommodation in Davenport on the banks of the Mighty Mississippi River around 4pm. Dro...

Early start for Mick, up showered and shaved and down for breakfast before 7am. We were on the road by 8:30am and after fuel stop continued onto the I80 for our longest distance so far, across Nebraska. We had been told this would be a long and boring drive but found it to be not that bad. However, the weather was a lot colder than predicted and instead of a 22c day we travelled through an ice storm where it was around 1c. Funnily enough we were in short pants an...

Mandatory morning stop for gas and windscreen wash and on the road towards Denver today through the White Water State Park and ski fields of Colorado. Temperature hovered around 4c with lots of snow around, stopped to stretch the legs along the Colorado River then onto Vail a beautiful resort but very hard to get around and as Mick put it "a lot of nobs hanging around." Further down the road called into Silverthorn and our once again our favorite pastime 'Outlet ...

Up by 6am and on the road to Bryce Canyon by 7am. Car frozen as temperature was around -5 didn't feel too bad, although we did have our long pants and jackets on for the first time. Driving through to Natural Bridge which is a naturally formed rock arch, snow all around making it a beautiful contrast with the bright red rock formations. The next great spectacle was Bryce Point with its awesome view across thousands of red rock towers, breathtaking at this time ...