We took time out to try and get over the worst of our colds. We spent 36 hours holed up in a room at Austins Chuckwagon in Torrey dosing up on cold medication, trying to bring our temps down with cold towels and generally feeling sorry for ourselves. Today although not fully recovered we are a lot better so we set off on our wanders. It's a bit of a gloomy day, mostly drizzly but with some patches of blue sky here and there. Not far from Torrey is Capitol Reef ...

We got an early start today, mostly due to my persistent cold which had me coughing and nose blowing through the night Unfortunately Pete declared he felt like he'd been hit by a truck so it looks like we're both struggling now. We sat outside our wee room and had breakfast watching the sun come blazing up over the red rocks. It was a pretty cool start to the day. We set off for Zion National Park, a half hour drive away passing awesome towering red rocks. T...

It rained all night and we woke to a cool grey day. We headed out of Flagstaff on Route 66 past forests and green fields full of wild daisies. At close to 7500' elevation it's very different to around the Salton Sea where much of the time we were below sea level. At 8.15 when we turned off Route 66 to head north to the Grand Canyon the skies were again blue and it had warmed up to 19C. To the west there's another big wind farm, I wonder if Aust will ever get its...