Salt Lake City

This is certainly not a town that either of us had ever thought about traveling to deliberately, but we are glad we made it.  The FamCamp on Hill AFB is very nice with a great view of the surrounding Wasatch Mountain range (complete with snow still at the summits).

View from the FamCamp

First impressions were favorable, Salt Lake City is smaller than expected, only 187,000 or so people, but CLEAN!  While it has the requisite commercial and industrial areas, there just doesn't seem to be much in the way of truly derelict districts.  They may be there, but we haven't run across them.  There are tons of parks, lots of things to do (most family oriented) and the people are friendly.  The city architecture is a wonderful mix of old and new.

County Municipal Building, downtown SLC

Downtown Library, across the square from the Municipal Building.

This has been a pretty low-key stop on our journey.  We got here on Saturday and spent Sunday (Father's Day) lounging around the trailer, watching a gentle, but persistent rain, and generally relaxing. Monday saw us out and about checking out the area.  Over the week we have visited the Tracy Aviary, Park City, home of the Sundance Film Festival and a venue for the 2002 Winter Olympics, 

Aspens in Iron Canyon, Park City, UT

hit the local farmer's market (got some wonderful fresh English peas), wandered the Utah Arts Festival,

Every mom's friend at a festival...PB & J sandwiches and milk...all proceeds go to a local children's art program.

ate at Ruth's Diner (been around since 1930), drove around Antelope Island checking out the Great Salt Lake and the resident buffalo, 

Great Salt Lake & Wasatch Mountains from Antelope Island

and sat around enjoying our new patio chairs.  In addition, Heinz has been busy doing some routine maintenance on the truck and tweaking odd jobs on the Airstream (that, my friends, is a never ending task).  He started polishing one of the exterior aluminum panels to see how that will work out.  Though a lot of work, the results will be terrific!

First of MANY panels to polish.

Here's our friends of the day, courtesy of Antelope Island and Tracy Aviary.