Salt Lake City

Good morning all :-)

Well, yesterday we took an easy drive up route 89 carefully avoiding the interstates to get from Bryce to Salt Lake City. It is *alot* warmer up this way, which I think is a good thing.

We arrived late last night so havn't seen much of the city yet, other than the fact it is surrounded by some beautiful snow capped mountains. We're planning on having an investigate today and heading out to the salt flats where they used to set all kinds of speed records etc. Apparently the only one of it's type in America.

So far Utah has been pretty cool, some amazing national parks and lovely little villages - alot less of the trailers and falling down shacks than we've seen in other parts of America. We don't really get that in the UK, but I guess that's to do with land availability etc. Why bother knocking the old house down when you can buy 40 acres on the edge of town for $39,500 (about £18,500) - seriously.

Hopefully we're meeting up with Jez's friend Rob over the next few days as he is threatening to show us some good off-roading - wahoo! Then we'll be in Moab until at least the end of October, so hopefully some interesting stories coming up soon :-)

Not long 'till we're back now - make the most of the peace and quiet ;-)

Jen