Today's journey began in one state, crossed through another and ended in a third. I bring to you the journey to Rob's Wedding.
We flew into Salt Lake City last night. Our plane landed late (because I was on it, of course.) And it was pouring rain. We apparently missed some crazy weather that passed by just before we landed which I totally believe since our flight was so turbulent.
When we woke up this morning, it was still raining. And the forecast for Wyoming looked similar. So, instead of heading up on our journey early, we decided to stick around Salt Lake City for a bit. We ventured downtown, saw the Mormon Tabernacle and the Temple. Both very impressive buildings. We didn't go inside either, but did talk to a nice couple who was handing out maps who also happened to be from the Boston area. Small world. (We have actually been running into a lot of people from our neck of the woods this trip already.) Then we grabbed coffee/tea, asked a local where to grocery shop and started our journey North.
We didn't end up going to the Great Salt Lake, but we did drive past it. If you can squint you can kind of see it.
The whole drive was super rainy. The clouds were eating the mountains and the trees.
We finally made it to Idaho!!! We stopped to use the bathroom and have lunch. So that totally counts as being there, right?
After what felt like the longest drive ever, past 100,000,000,000,000 potato fields (Seriously. That's all Idaho was. Potato fields. And they are not even that interesting to look at since they GROW UNDER GROUND), and maybe a couple of cows, we finally made it to Wyoming. It's fall there now. Very pretty.
Wyoming was pretty, since there were trees. Also, our first experience was driving on a road that all but said Turn back, don't come this way, dangerous road ahead. Something about 10% grade ahead. But, Nick pulled through and we made it down the mountain pass unscathed. And I didn't even get that car sick (Pro-tip: Sea bands, peppermint and looking straight out the window and not anywhere else. One look at a map and it was almost all over.) Beautiful view at the bottom though. We made it to the hotel, which is just like a ski resort hotel from the movies. I have a view out my window of horses and the mountains. There are fire places everywhere and an indoor/outdoor heated pool. We even saw our first (of hopefully many) animals run across the road driving to dinner. Overall a great journey to the middle of the country. And tomorrow, its wedding time!
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