Comment: Beatty, Death Valley to Mammoth Lakes

Yes I know what you mean but its a unique and everchanging country with an incredible parks system. We don't see ANY canvas campers here though and the campgrounds and RV parks are designed for 'hookups' with hard open ground mostly. The private owned RVs are powerful machines that despite their size and always towing a 6cyl vehicle can tackle the inclines are well as us in our zoom machine! The hire RVs however are slow chuggers. I didn't plan the trip enough so spending a lot of time reading and researching on the go but that is part of the adventure and makes the discoveries al the more special. The best info is provided by the parks themselves - the town visitor centres are much like the Australian ones - lots of brochures about tours and shops!

Michelle