Salt Lake City

We’ve been driving through cowboy country all day. The speed limit is 80, the sky is blue, no clouds, very bright sun, with hardly a tree in sight. Not far from the roads are rocky mesas and sheep/cattle trails. In the distance to the south and west are the Grand Tetons and the Rocky Mountains, with snow visible. We aren’t very hungry, and I wonder if the altitude has something to do with it. Alaza has decided she’ll never live out here because she has no cell phone bars. We’ll spend our last night at a Quality Inn near the Salt Lake airport. I wonder if I can find a  beer here in Salt Lake City?

Sunday Morning

Last night, Cheyenne had a brief thunderstorm along with a huge rainbow. This morning, the weather is beautifully cool and sunny. Unfortunately, our motel room window doesn’t have a screen and if we open it to let the fresh air in, we risk letting the cats out. Just another reason for hightailing it out of the Rodeway Inn. According to the freight company website, our furniture is in Salt Lake City. That will probably be our destination tonight. We’re 1,000 miles from Sacramento, which Google says is a 15 ½ hour drive (not possible in one day with 2 high maintenance cats and a non-driving 19 year old with us).  We plan to stay just one more night on the road, although that will require about 9 hours of hard driving from Salt Lake City to Sacramento.