Runaway

Runaway is what we did from our creepy campground and we drove all day on Interstate 80 to Salt Lake City. It was hot and brown with occasional lakes popping up. The trains out here are amazing with so many cars just moving along tracks going into the brown distance. Some trains seem color coded with black tanks, silver trucks mounted on flat cars, rusty red boxcars, coal haulers, blue and yellow freight too. The livestock cars are there too, but they aren't pretty. It's weird to see the Union Pacific yellow engines pulling these cars along the tracks.

We ended up in Salt Lake City which is very pretty and clean. Well kept buildings in the downtown area and all the Mormon office buildings and temples are impressive. We stayed at a KOA and it is one of our favorite campgrounds. Nice spots, refreshing pool and a superior nature area to walk Ziggy. Each space had a little plot of grass which they were cutting and sprinkling and colorful flower beds also.

Now we have a book called "Eccentric America" and it has weird places to visit and eat at across the country. So far it has been a valued resource. Well tonight was a total bust. The book says that Utah is a state that refuses to poke fun at itself and there were very few entries of weirdness. They did tout "The Mayan" restaurant which is the largest in the state seating 1000 people in a fake Mayan rain forest and cliff divers in Speedos. Sounded worth a visit. Wrong! Turned out to be a tacky Mexican fast food with good decor. Food was mediocre, service was bad and the divers were brave to go into such a small pool. You can't win them all.