Salt Lake City – 4.25
Nature calls. So we stop in Eagle, Colorado. Meet Gus!
Also met a nice lady at the information desk. She totally recommended the route south taking US 24 through the mountains versus going through Denver. It has 14 of the 14000+ ft mountains in route. This will put us in OK City later than planned tonight but she said it’s totally worth it.
Why not? How many times can I say I will be back here driving this route. (knowing me… probably a few times;)
Salt Lake City – part 4
Having started earlier around 8am MST we realized we needed to fix the License plate. The front was good, but we had no back due to a gnarling of the plate from the seller. SEE photo.
So the Safeway parking lot was the place to fix it. Zip ties and clear packing tape.
Onward and eastward.
Salt Lake City – 2.75
So at the moment I am sitting in the truck (yet to be revealed) waiting for “Ruben” to get back from dropping his rental car off. The scenery is spectacular from where I sit… facing a parked Honey Pot or Honey Truck as some may call it. Hurry back Ruben.
Oh! and I got a picture of the Mormon Tabernacle for my Baptist-Mormon girlfriend. Enjoy!
Salt Lake City – 2.5
Upon decent it was an awesome view of the surrounding, snow-covered mountains. Beautiful. However, the closer to airport we got, the foggier… or smoggier it got. Interesting. So hopefully it’s not a daily thing and just a “foggy” day.
While flying this leg of the trip I sat next to a fairly quiet young lady that slept or read most of the way. When we got closer to SLC she pulled out her boarding pass when I noticed her passport that stated she was from the UK. It started a brief conversation due to my Brit tennis partner (we’ll call him “Liam”).
She told me what she was traveling for and so far it’s the coolest “single serving friend” I have had on a flight. (watch Fight Club for reference). She was here going to Park City for the Junior World Championships and her event is “Skeleton”. How cool is that? Rather COLD going approximately 80mph! So young and already has a set the size of King Kong to take on that sport!
Ruben’s gonna pick up his rental car and after we pick up the truck. and drop off the car… the road we shall hit!
BTW the Sundance Film Festival is also here in Park City in February. That would be cool to attend one year.
There are mountains there behind the clouds… honest!
UPDATE: I did a search and found the young lady (22 at this date… much younger than me)… Laura Deas. See her video below.