We headed to Salt Lake City today, arriving in the early afternoon. First stop - Audi dealer to get a brake light repaired. Great service, no charge and a great recommendation to a nearby Vietnamese restaurant -- a nice break from the all american cuisine of the west. We then headed to the Utah State house, under major renovations and then to the nearby area of the Morman Church. The Visitor Center, Brigam Young Park, Tabernacle, grounds were all extremely impressive. We did tour Brigam Young's home -- the Bee Hive house. He had 19 wives and more than 50 children while at the same time served as both Governor and the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. His personal life was certainly attention getting. Beautiful, large home with young missionaries as tour guides who completed our tour with a song for our small group - beautiful voices. All very interesting.
Downtown seemed very well maintained, with an updated light rail/trolley car system. Lots of traffice on I 15 in rush hour -- long thin city, with mountains on all sides. Provo seems like an extension of Salt Lake. Lots of big box stores in the suburbs - could be anywhere. Still no 93 octane gas [none in Portland that I found]
We then headed south to Beaver UT where we are spending the night, enroute to the Grand Canyon tomorrow. This is the birthplace of both Butch Cassidy and the inventor of television, Philo Farnsworth.
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I'm guessing you are at the Grand Canyon-North Rim, after having driven through the Kabob National Forest. I'm curious what is the general route of return and return date.
Not sure if you made it to the bus station. It's the cleanest bus station in America (or at least it was about 29 years ago). It's very close to the Mormon Church. went thru there when i was on my voyage from washington d.c. to berkeley, ca. from salt lake , the bus headed west to the casinos of Nevada...
anyway, hope your trip to salt lake was good.
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