The last time we drove this stretch of I-80 west out of Salt Lake City, Utah was in September 1973. Today as we left the city we noted the Saltair III pavilion on our right. We visited it in 2014. Also we noticed some mining activity including a Morton Salt facility. As we drove through the Bonneville Salt Flats we saw a few oddities. Sometimes abandoned beer bottles were set in a circle and appeared to be half buried. There was what looked like a sea serpent in the salt. And a famous sculpture, the Tree of Utah is a prominent feature on the north side of I-80. We stopped at the rest area near Wendover, Utah to wander for a few minutes on the salt flats, to marvel at salt and more salt as far as the eye can see, and to gaze across the interstate to the location of a historical marker commemorating the Last Splice of the First Transcontinental Telephone Line.
Aboard the Norwegian Jewel we’ve made stops in Cozumel, Mexico and Georgetown, Grand Cayman to explore beyond our previous experiences here. Soon we’ll be making our way to ports we’ve not yet explored in the Southern Caribbean.
What a treat to pause for a BBQ lunch with the locals at Pearl Country Store and Barbecue on US-441 in Micanopy, Florida. It’s a taste of the Florida we remeber from our youth.
By deliberate choice we were in Medina for all the winter holiday festivities from Candlelight Walk in the days before Thanksgiving through A Christmas Carol and A Celtic Christmas as well as an Alex Bevan Concert and a historic house tour all the way through Medina’s 31st Ice Festival but perhaps the highlight was the town hosting hundreds of folks whose homes and lives were devasted by Hurricane Helene at the A Promise of Christmas Event the middle of January. It’s an honor to be a part of this amazing community!
Cool pictures!!!
I want to go here someday. It’s on my Utah bucket list!