The wild west

The town of Wendover was interesting in only for the stark contrast of State laws. The Nevada half was all neon casinos and the Utah half, literally divided by a white line painted on the road was normal.

The Great Salt flats are really flat. And kinda white but not exceptionally interesting after a few minutes. It was kinda wet when we got out to walk on them and it was more like clay but the little pools had salt crusts around the edges.

Salt Lake City looked much like Reno - and almost every other city since the age of the car. So we decided to spend the day on Antelope Island state Park where the wild bison roam. We did a geocache there and looked around. The Great Salt Lake is kinda neat in that it was so salty I could feel it in the thickness of the water on my hand. Too bad it was too cold to go for a float!

We were just cutting across the top part of Utah so we were soon in Wyoming. Wyoming is the wild west, all dry and empty but for barbed wire cows and antelope. Odd thing about Wyoming - everyoen drives a full size pick-up truck with a big push grill on the front. Then again maybe its not that weird?

We did check out the Devil's Monument as seen here:

It's actually more impressive in RL. Sadly I can't really say the same for Mount Rushmore which we also visited. But maybe that's just my is towards nature versus man made showing through?

The Black Hills are very cool if overly touristed now. Too many billboards and such for my taste. I did have a meal to my taste at the Gem Saloon in historic Deadwood.