The most remarkable thing, to us both, was the complete change in landscape over just a few hours. Grand Junction had the Rockies and vineyards (!) and Utah had the very, very flat salt flats, it really felt like we were driving along the bottom of the ocean.
We did go by some odd buildings on the side of Salt Lake, I looked them up, they were/are Mormon pavilions. They had a number of them throughout the state and they served as a rest area/safe house, where the Mormon's could stop for a bit and rest whilst travelling, perhaps? It wasn't a free for all though, you were 'overlooked' by a church official. Now these buildings are mostly abandoned, I think the one we drove by (see picture below) has been used for a number of concerts, I am not sure when the last one was performed, but a number of reviews said that it was pretty creepy to walk around and that mostly heavy metals bands now played there.
The road was straight, completely straight - the Romans would've been proud, kind of straight and either side was really nothing to see, other than salt.
We did drive by the Bonneville Salt Flats where the land-speed records are performed, the latest speed recorded was 630 mph by a blue Toyota Tacoma, heavily laden, with 1 dog, a spaniel, driving recklessly and the other sticking her head of the window, shouting and whooping. Only the speed record is true.
That evening we arrived in Elko and drove to Spring Creek, NV a small town just outside Elko where our friends live. It was the perfect stopping off point before the long push to South Lake Tahoe tomorrow. Thank you Donny and Kelly (and Ruby)
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