I had a really bad night sleep because of two things - I was freezing cold with only one blanked on the bed, and my poxy USA mobile phone reset its time to 2 hours earlier than actual time. I wonder if it had something to do with crossing into Nevada, but not sure. I had a coffee, filled the tank with petrol & set off back into National Park. I basically drove nearly every tarred road that I could without doing too much of what I had done the day before. I w...

I woke up to a snow covered Tonopah. It was so deep I feared that I would not make it out. Tonopah sits on top of a fairly high hill & it was bound to get some snow from the storm that was blowing across, but I did not think it would be quite as much. The bored lady at reception thought I would be fine without the chains as they had already cleared the roads. She was right. Also, literally, 10mins down the hill & there was no snow at all. I carried on sou...