When you do a trip like this you do not have to plan your stops, but you better plan your gas ups or you can find your self out in the middle of no where dialing 1-800 AAA and telling them to bring gas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I had plenty of fuel when I got into Evanston, Wy., but from there to the other side off Utah is not a long stretch, but long enough and with enough mountains to eat up the fuel that I filled up in Evanston, Wy. and headed on down 80 with the intention of filling up in West Wendover, Nev.
Utah is not really that exciting to travel across until you get into Salt Lake City. I have driven in Los Angeles, Miami, and Washington D.C., but nothing quite prepares you for Salt Lake when you have a tow vehicle and you are surrounded by what can only be described as Richard Petty/Mario Andretti WANNABE'S in bumper cars. I was lucky as I came through on a Sunday around noon. The thought of having to drive that on a rush hour weekday would make me want to drink and do drugs as a serious habit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No one on the road in Salt Lake when I came through offers any mercy, nor do I assume they expect any!!!!!!!!!!!! So I just set my cruise on 60, turned up my SIRIUS 50's music, turned on my emergency flashers, and stuck my head out the window and started screaming "NO BRAKES, NO BRAKES" and it seemed to work, for what reason I am not sure. Maybe it was because I was wearing a life preserver??????? I will never know for sure because when I head back I will be going a different way, but I will keep the life preserver just in case!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Since you are reading this you obviously know or I would hope that you know that I escaped Salt Lake City with nary a scratch, dent, not even a slight concussion. But it was definitely more fun than an E-RIDE at Disney!!!!!!!
So with the Salt Lake City limits sign in my rear view mirror I headed out onto the salt flats. This has got to be the worlds largest salt shaker. Talk about a salt high, this is the place. The pictures attached show one of the flats, that is salt and not snow, and the other one shows salt stacked up REALLY HIGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!You are almost to the Nevada State line, before getting to the Bonneville salt track. I just don't know why you would want to drive on salt??????? I live by the Atlantic ocean and the salt eats everything up. I guess they just run the car and then make a million salt shakers out of it??????????????
I went through here some time in the late 70's, but the year escapes me, {if I could just find the bottle or at least my memory medicine, I just cannot remember where I put it??????} I am sure the bottle would be better because then I would not need to remember anything and who knows maybe I might even get a message????????????? and so just as a footnote I actually made it to Wells, Nev., just a little farther inside Nevada and fueled up and never saw the CONTINENTAL DIVIDE again??????? and so it was off to California by way of Nevada and more adventures????????????????
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