Originally posted by rparmar Expecting lots of photos!
I will post them in the Post Your Photos forum, I guess, starting in a few days. I should get home tomorrow evening, and have the weekend to do up some. I'm going to whittle them down to maybe 1,000 keepers :-)
Originally posted by magkelly How do you get snow turtles and 90 degrees at the same time?
Don't forget windy, too.
It was a pretty long driving day - Rawlins WY to Cedar City UT. I was at the prison museum in Rawlins early and was the only person in the first tour, which lasted almost an hour and was pretty in-depth around the facilities.
An hour side trip to Flaming Gorge was OK but a little underwhelming. It was the only attraction marked in the atlas around the area I happened to be in, so I figured I'd go see it - that's what vacations are for...I was essentially a boat launch on a nice river between some nice sandstone cliffs.
Ft Laramie WY is a historical museum of Jim Bridger's fort, from the 1880-90's located on the Mormon Trail. It was pretty decent.
I was running a bit late, so I decided not to even try to get the LDS temple in Salt Lake City, and just shoot down to Cedar City for the night. I did pull over illegally on the offramps, twice, to get some sunset streaming through the clouds.
More GPS humor - after getting gas, the GPS routed me out the southern exit of the parking lot onto a frontage street which parallels the freeway. Had to go over a mile, then cross over the freeway, then back the way I came up another frontage road on the other side, cross the freeway, and enter the freeway using the ramp located near the north exit of the parking lot. That was the "fastest" route...
The other event was the ""going west-going south" maneuver which totally bypassed Salt Lake City. If you consult a map, you will see SLC is the hub of the area. Anyway, it was rush-hour at the time (at least in So Calif terms), so perhaps it was correct in shooting my through Heber Valley and Provo, which included surface streets...
Anyway, I made it, and I am functionally done with sightseeing, though I may check out something in Las Vegas before shooting home. I'll probably pop in at the Route 66 museum in Barstow CA to see if they have any good T-shirts. I like the long-sleeve white ones with the map on the back :-) Last time they only had short-sleeves...
What's in a name? part 2...
When checking in at this motel, I said "I have a reservation for tonight", and put my driver's license on the counter. The young woman asked "Edgar Montoya?" I should mention I have a pretty good tan from all the hiking this vacation, but no one would mistake me for Edgar Montoya. And, there were only 2 names to choose from...