Got underway by 8:30 this morning for our trip from Winnemucca Nevada to Salt Lake City Utah. Our 5+ hour drive turned out to be 6+ hours cause as we crossed into Utah we also entered Mountain time zone and gained an hour – go figure. We saw a lot of the same things today as yesterday. Like I said yesterday – Boooooring … Oh well at least we got to go through a tunnel and we even found a river running through the Hi-Desert. I80 is really in good shape and they’re working like crazy to upgrade the rest of the road in Nevada. Someone must either be getting a kick-back or owns stock in these huge cones they have all over the place. You can get a glimpse of these things at the link below. They have thousands and I mean thousands of these things on the road.
I guess crossing Nevada is not any worse than going from Bakersfield, CA to Victorville, CA – same Hi-Desert I recon. It’s sad when going through a tunnel is one of the highlights of your drive. Once we crossed into Utah the desert covered with scrub brush was replaced by salt and more salt. The first thing we saw was the Bonneville Salt Flats in the distance. Took a few shots as we drove by cause we saw a bunch of folks out there. Checked on-line and there appears to be some sort of speed week getting ready for the 2009 speed trials. Learned that a poor soul dyed yesterday when his car traveling over 200 mph crashed. Bonneville is not for the faint at heart.
Caught a glimpse of the Great Salt Lake and it looks like an ocean. Last time I saw Salt Lake it was the summer of 1965 and I was 15 years old. The only things I remember was trying to swim underwater in the lake and failing cause the salt content prevents you from going underwater due to buoyancy and the second thing I can remember from 44 years ago was the sound of the organ at the Mormon Temple. One of the things we’ll be doing while here is listening to the Mormon choir accompanied by the organ.
We’re settled in for the next 3 nights here at Salt Lake City at a new park called Pony Express RV Park. It’s so new that my navigation system does not have the road in it’s data bank. We opted for the Executive Pull-Thru at a base rate of $42. The staff is really friendly here and so far so good. The only bad thing I have found is that the dump drain is more than 25 feet away from the 5th wheel. Don’t know why a new RV Park would locate the drain so far away from the rest of the hookups. While running around the next few days I guess I’ll pick up an extension or I’ll have to back way up when we leave in order to dump. Turns out that 9 years ago when this park was designed the dump valve on most RVs as at the rear of the units so that’s where they put it. It took them 9 years to get past all the permits and fight the bureaucracy before they built this park.
See photos of our trip across Nevada and parts of Utah
Here’s some photos of the Pony Express RV Resort
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