Today we took a drive up to the north rim of the black canyon, and it was an amazing drive. We stopped at Hermits rest, which overlooked a deep green river way down below. We were going to continue to the north rim, but I realised I had left my jandals at Hermits rest, so we had to go back down to get them. Then we decided to keep on driving back down.

We stopped in Gunnison, a reasonable sized town, and got a few supplies. I saw there was an oil change place there, so we drove up and nobody was there. So Rodger got some new oil. We also managed to get a small powerstation to power our Starlink mini, so now we can have satellite internet where there is none (there are many places in the USA where there is no internet).

Then we went to the library, as I needed to get my video uploaded. By the time we’d finished it was time to find somewhere to sleep. There was nowhere decent in Gunnison,so we drove on, over a steep mountain pass over Monarch mountain.  It was 11300 feet at the peak where we stopped to take a photo.

We saw about 3 or 4 deer on the side of the road, but thankfully they stayed in their place. It was almost dark by the time we stopped at a visitor centre which allowed overnight parking. There were two other vans camping here, so we figured it was ok.