{"id":131,"date":"2011-01-27T15:16:09","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T20:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmichaelrhoades.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/salt-lake-city-2-5\/"},"modified":"2011-01-31T14:29:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T19:29:10","slug":"salt-lake-city-2-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cmichaelrhoades.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/salt-lake-city-2-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Salt Lake City &#8211; 2.5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upon decent it was an awesome view of the surrounding, snow-covered mountains. Beautiful. However, the closer to airport we got, the foggier&#8230; or smoggier it got. Interesting. So hopefully it&#8217;s not a daily thing and just a &#8220;foggy&#8221; day.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;ll call him &#8220;Liam&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>She told me what she was traveling for and so far it&#8217;s the coolest &#8220;single serving friend&#8221; I have had on a flight. (watch Fight Club for reference). She was here going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parkcityinfo.com\/includes\/events\/index.cfm?action=displayDetail&amp;eventid=1809\" target=\"_blank\">Park City for the Junior World Championships<\/a> and her event is &#8220;Skeleton&#8221;. 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!<\/p>\n<p>Ruben&#8217;s gonna pick up his rental car and after we pick up the truck. and drop off the car&#8230; the road we shall hit!<\/p>\n<p>BTW the Sundance Film Festival is also here in Park City in February. That would be cool to attend one year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cmichaelrhoades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/l_2048_1536_917734CC-EA40-45BB-BD62-5F1D72AD5FDC.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmichaelrhoades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/l_2048_1536_917734CC-EA40-45BB-BD62-5F1D72AD5FDC.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cmichaelrhoades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/l_2048_1536_B299FA63-864B-4D0F-9C97-2D0A938BC84C.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-364\" src=\"http:\/\/cmichaelrhoades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/l_2048_1536_B299FA63-864B-4D0F-9C97-2D0A938BC84C.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cmichaelrhoades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/l_2048_1536_499BBA1C-DB17-46FE-BCB2-C089D91D17CC.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-364\" src=\"http:\/\/cmichaelrhoades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/l_2048_1536_499BBA1C-DB17-46FE-BCB2-C089D91D17CC.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are mountains there behind the clouds&#8230; honest!<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: I did a search and found the young lady (22 at this date&#8230; much younger than me)&#8230;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.skeletonsport.com\/athletes\/?contactid=7422\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Deas<\/a>. See her video below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SHAxBTqDxgg\">Laura Deas, Great Britain Skeleton Racer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon decent it was an awesome view of the surrounding, snow-covered mountains. Beautiful. However, the closer to airport we got, the foggier&#8230; or smoggier it got. Interesting. So hopefully it&#8217;s not a daily thing and just a &#8220;foggy&#8221; day. 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