Our trip from Denver to Salt Lake City was the highlight in our trip.  I-70 brought us to the heart of the rockies.  The trip, some of them are video taped and most memorialized by pictures, cannot be expressed through any of the videos and pictures we have taken.  The trip brought us to some of the most spectacular and amazing creation of nature.  We were in awe at how beautiful Colorado’s mountain and how at times, travelling through the mountain made you feel so small comparative to your surrounding.  The mountains also had in essence isolated you from everything else.  It was definitely a trip that must be seen in your own eyes.  I think Robert and I can talk about the whole event for hours, and never get the essence of what we saw the first few hours of that trip. 

As we crossed the border to Utah, we were amazed at how the landscape changed virtually just as you crossed the border.  The first 2 hours in Utah was spent on I-70 stuck in a desert, barren and vast, sand as far as the eye can see, and nothing else.  It was a sight to see, but we were a little freaked out about the fact that virtually there are nothng around.  At times there were span of 100 miles or more of no service, and in that span, we did not see any town, any person, or any building.   In that sense, it felt welcoming to even go to a more local and smaller highway – US 6, which proved to be more populated than I-70. US 6 also brought us to more desert, which eventually turned into more opportunity to travel between ranges of mountain and more uphill climb.   Most of this road was one lane per side, which was a pain especially when they decided to delay traffic by closing one lane, making us wait for more than 10 minutes to be able to use the oiiiWe were very happy to have reached the Provo metro area, and finally see a town with stores and restaurants, after hours of travelling without seeing much of anything which could equate to civilization.  To my dismay, there were no trips for souvenirs, coz the miles we spent in Utah, we did not encounter any of the cool stores that I grew to enjoy going to during our first few days on the road.

The Provo-Salt Lake City Area is developed and looks just like any suburb in American, with lots of subdivisions and strip mall.   Salt Lake City is small but quite modern.  Our first stop – Robert’s west coast fave – Carl’s Jr.  After finaly having our lunch aftter 8.5 hours on the road, we finally reached our  hotel.  We were both so thanful and was glad.  We ate in and relaxed to get ready for the next day’s long trip to Lake Tahoe, NV. 

We got so many pictures from this leg, that select pictures will be posted while we are on vaca, but we will do more when we get back.

That’s it for now.

breakfast: McD’s
lunch: Carl’s Jr
dinner: room service

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