Horseshu Hotel and Casino Jackpot

... off the beaten path to Promontory Utah. That is where the "golden spike" was used to connect the West and East by rail. You should have heard my car then...everyone else could. That didn't stop me ... I returned to the freeway via a 30 mile country road and then onto Twin Falls where the noise was too great and my common sense kicked in.

It's in the middle of nowhere, and it's like nowhere else on earth. Miles and miles of salt crystals, as far as the eye can see. When it isn't being blinded. Your eye, that is.


The lovely sign describes how evaporation... blah blah blah.


I admit I had visions of trying to hit redline in 5th gear to "see what she'll do" but... I didn't.

Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, United States david.tobias

... desolate.
The drive today did certainly bring home to me just how large the US is. It is something
that I have always known but until you have driven for 10 hours and only passed 2 towns and a few other clusters of houses you don't really appreciate how large it is and how few people live in parts of it.
The other interesting thing that I noted was that they divide the interstates. They don't ...

... cowboy country with the big rigs barreling past our chug-a-lug campervan we landed at Cactus Pete's RV park and casino. We managed to grab the last parking slot in an encampment of humongous 30 ft RVs. Our Roadtrek feels miniscule sandwiched between them. The skies opened up with thunder and lightning as we plugged in for ...

Today was pretty a much a day in the car with a couple of stops for gas, food and sightseeing. Instead of going down the Interstates to get to Twin Falls I took the long way through the Sawtooth National Recreation Area. It was a nice drive and I got to Twin Falls late in the afteroon ...

... in sending e-mails and photos, I'm hoping to create another travelogue for that trip that will also be available to you to puruse. Time will tell. One thing's for sure - retirement gives me more time to mess around with things like this and I'm kinda enjoying it. I hope you don't mind me involving you. I'll try not to bother you too much, okay?

... We got a hotel room in SLC, and though we ended up waiting well over an hour for the airport shuttle, it was nice to hit the pillow on American soil. We finally got to sleep at midnight, and were up at 5am for the remaining flight to Boise.

... us. Tara and I met them during the Winter Olympics when we sold pins out their jewelry store. Chris Gentzkow and Ann also showed up a bit later and we had a full on rockin party! It was great catching up with everyone. The next night we stayed in Gentzkow's new house which he's doing up himself and went to a sports bar again to watch the Sonics kick some more ass!

Just so you all know, my dates are off on this trip as I have no memory of them, neither does my Dad...I was 10 years old...I have this blog for this trip to remember where we went! Although, I do remember going by the Great Salt Lake and Salt literally blowing up onto the car...it was incredible. We were in a draught that year. The winds were strong and the sun hot...interesting indeed.

... felt like I was in a loggers' camp. The cooking area was on one side of the room and you could see all the action. The special I ordered was 6 big sausage, 3 eggs, 2 toast and hash browns with coffee for $3.50. And there were two things that amazed me. How much was piled on my plate for that amount, (I think he added pancakes too), and how everything was done at the same time ...