Wake up at 5:50AM!!!! It is always as hard, but we are rewarded with a nice sunrise. We are soon on the Red Road going North of Rexburg, towards Dubois. Pretty sand dunes on the side of the road.

A few miles later the road is closed. However there are some tire tracks on the side of the road, so we decide to go anyway. Wonderful views!!! We are a bit scared however to get caught by the police or some ranger, so we don’t have a lot of pictures… Adie doesn’t take pictures when she is scared… There are hundreds of strange birds on the road, like pheasants but with funny fan tails, maybe this is why the road is closed…

Craters of the Moon. We arrive there at around 11AM. It is an old volcanic area. Beautiful. It reminds us of La Reunion. There are even some lava tubes and caves, we explore two of them.

By the way spending time at high elevations is good for the fit!

We finish the pizza from yesterday evening, and take the road again, heading South to Nevada through the road 93. The part around Twins Falls is quite crowded and not really pleasant, except for the canyon at the town entrance.

Nevada! We will try to avoid getting a speed ticket this time… The landscape starts to change along the road, more and more desertic. We cross Great Basin, an immense upland, 300 miles by 100 miles.

After a chinese dinner in Ely, a small casino city, we head to a small campground (14$ fee for self registration at the entrance). The trail to the campground is quite pleasant, lot of black cows and veals in open range. It is dark when we arrive, so we quickly set up the car for the night. This time we manage to pull enough the front seat to allow us to be confortable.

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