We left Kanab and mad Wayne, a bit sad we liked it here. The plan was to go to Zion but the thought of going through the road works on the way was not appealing and we were still a bit knackered from yesterdays hike. We took a different route that ran along Utah, Arizona and eventually into Nevada missing out Zion. As we dropped down the temperature started to rise, at 5000ft it was 96 F. We however have dropped to probally the same altitude as Vegas at 1000ft a...

Both of us are not feeling good so we spent the day in a motel room (plus diner).

There is only one single carriage road going out of Burning Man and this was the biggest ever at 60,000 people. We felt that we had seen the festival and wanted to beat the rush out. It was not too bad getting out at just two hours. The nice touch they do here is to move blocks of traffic in quarter mile sections so that you can turn your engines off and do something else albeit in a line of traffic. We were heading back to cheap Reno to recover, my chest was b...

I had a bad night coughing, and going home early was on the cards. However I felt that tonight was the big night and we havn't seen all the festival had to offer. The dust storm continued and Liz's moral needed a boost. Offers of alcohol were refused (must be bad). I decided that the chest problems would improve if I kept out of the dust and kept a mask on. I decided to start drinking at Jeronimos camp with the budda people - which did the trick. My chest had imp...

This was going to be a hot day well over 100F. The objective was to show Liz some of the art. Everyone was on about the topless cycle ride parade starting at the burning man. This fitted in with showing Liz the burning man and some of the art nearby. By the time we got there we had drunk 2 liters of water and needed more. Other art was far into the dessert where there was nothing to drink. We drifted back towards the tent to get a bag with lots of water. We neede...