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Awesome! We've collected wild mushrooms in Colorado and Utah at 9-10 thousand feet, and have always been met with curious looks at best. In a company of seasoned Russian mushroom hunters, you're safe :)

gunnermoose - thank you Sir!

Day Nine - Valley of Fire, Lake Mead, and Hoover Dam In the plans for the day we had a nearly-shortest highway ride – from St. George to Valley of Fire in Nevada. The drive was entirely unremarkable; when we turned our engines in St. George, we could already feel the heat coming in. What was in...

Day Eight - Cottonwood Canyon and White Pocket We didn’t plan on covering too much ground on this day, but some of the going was to be interesting. Cannonville KOA campground is right on the Kodachrome Way, which turns into a Cottonwood Canyon Road. The road goes mostly along the bottom of a...

Day Seven - Capitol Reef and Grand Staircase – Escalante We woke up somewhat heavy-headed, and decided to pack up our stuff and head into town of Moab for breakfast. Our lucky streak with clear skies seemed to be ending – a large front approached Moab from the West. We left the campground...

Day Six - between Ironton and Arches This was supposed to be our last day in San Juan Mountains of Colorado; we planned to take the pavement route to Moab, Utah, some three hours away. However, somebody checked the weather forecast, and noticed the 25-degree difference in temperature between...

Day Five - Imogene Pass, Telluride, and Ophir Pass The plan for the day included traversing Imogene Pass, visiting the town of Telluride, and returning to Ouray via Ophir Pass. So, as soon as we were done with breakfast, we headed back to Camp Bird Road, and split off to Imogene. The day, the...

Day Four - whatever we could make of the Alpine Loop The vague plan for the day included Alpine Loop; knowing the eagerness of our troop to jump out of the vehicles and take all photos in the world, I doubted we’d ever see Capitol City or Engineer Pass. Sure enough, we did not. In a remarkable...

Day Three - Yankee Boy Basin and Governor Basin In the morning, we enjoyed a majestic view of the mountains from the cabin’s living room. The day was gray, gloomy, and wet, and the weather forecast promised rain. We were undeterred, and the plans for the day called for a short trip to two...

Day Two - White Canyon, Blue Canyon After a night in a motel in Flagstaff, we headed out to U.S.89 North towards Cameron and Tuba City. The road onwards included U.S.160 East; however, one intrepid photographer in our group hatched a plan to take a detour to White Canyon (which, not entirely...

Near the end of July of this year, we - six people evenly split between genders (and just equally - in citizenship, between Russia and the U.S.) – took two 1996 Land Rover Discoveries, one with 247 thousand miles on the clock, another – a youngster with only 155 thousand, on a 10-day, 2600-mile...

LOL... but I am not selling my Disco yet (not that there are too many takers). Besides, this weekend I will have a proper GM p/s pump in my truck. Probably, just to blow the seals out of the steering box.

Last year it was not in vogue...

That could have been a great campsite - maybe some other time: - Can you still hear them? Where did they go? Ice on the stove in the morning: Jason gets the morning fire going: Near the campsite in Fishlake Nat'l Forest:

On the way to Egypt: Man that hole is deep: CRX carefully avoided in the photo: On the way to Aquarius Plateau: By the lake: Chris on the island: Overlooking Capitol Reef: On the way to Capitol Reef:

St.George at night - Birds in a pond at Hell's Backbone Grill: Rick's chilling out near the assortment of Land Rovers:

you don't say... hmmm.