Day 23: Reno to Salt Lake City

On July 5th, we left Reno, NV, headed for Salt Lake City, UT. This meant driving through the Bonneville Salt Flats, which was pretty impressive. We could see the mountains maybe 60 miles away, and between us and the mountains were just these huge expanses of white salt.



This particular mirage made the mountains look like they were partially floating in space.


When the salt reached right up to the road, we could see that people had stopped all along the way and used rocks to write their names or little cute messages on the salt. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get any good pictures of this because I didn’t want Dave to stop the car.


This lasted for at least 100 miles; it was the strangest little ritual.

As one might expect, we spotted a Morton’s salt factory out there, too.


Then, just as quickly as they had popped up out of nowhere, the scenery changed again, and we were coming up on these gorgeous green mountains.



On the other side was Salt Lake City. We arrived around dinner time on Sunday, and did a wee bit of sightseeing—just enough to give us an idea of what we were in for on Monday.

We got to peek at the Mormon Temple...


And its accompanying office building across the street that featured a HUGE relief map of the world on the outside.



As well as the LDS Church History building. HUGE.


At that point, I was starving and needed some dinner. We had some trouble finding an open restaurant for dinner, it being Sunday in the SLC and all. So we, of course, went to the Panda Buffet.


It was as mediocre as it could have been, but as we ate, the place filled up pretty quickly. Nothing remarkable to note here.


We finished our dinner, headed to the KOA, and went to bed dreaming of a big day in Salt Lake City tomorrow.