Today it was a really sad day. It began with the message that our good friend Manfred Meyer died yesterday. We are shocked. We hope and pray that his wife Brigitta gets strength from god for the following time. We hope that Manfred is in good hands now.

We are very confused aboud this, but anyway we decided to continue our trip and visited Bryce Canyon today. I am feeling better so we could make the whole trip today. At Bryce Canyon there are winter conditions. The elevation is about 8000ft. We had to take much care not to slip on the ice – would have had a bad consequence. (Is that correct grammar?).

A few words about my experience with mobile phone connection in the US. I bought a SIM card from Red Pocket before we started into our trip. The recent days I had no connection at all. This morning I got the news from the support that my SIM card may be out of order. Now as we are in Utah it works again. So I guess Red Pocket has a bad coverage in Arizona.