MANY PEOPLE HAD POO POO'D THE IDEA OF OUR VISITING SALT LAKE CITY BUT WE CORRECTLY ENVISIONED THE AREA AS ONE WORTH SPENDING SOME TIME AROUND. SURE WE DID SOME ODD THINGS... LIKE VISITING THE HOUSE WHERE ELIZABETH SMART WAS ABDUCTED FROM (GAINING NATIONWIDE PUBLICITY), AND ALSO DID SOME 'FROM THE STREET" VIEWING OF THE MANY OUTLANDISH LDS (LATTER DAY SAINTS, AKA MORMONS) BUILDINGS 0 OF WHICH THERE WERE MANY AND THESE WERE OFTEN QUITE LARGE... BUT OVERALL SALT LAKE CITY WAS MESMERIZING IN IT LAYOUT, SPARKLE, CLEANLINESS AND UNIQUENESS. PLACE WAS VERY MODERN IN MANY RESPECTS, YET STILL HAD A TON OF CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS HAPPENING WHICH CAUSED GREAT CONFLICTS BETWEEN OUR PHONE GOOGLE MAPS AND GARMIN GPS. ABOVE PICTURE IS OF COTTONWOOD CANYON ON OUR WAY BACK FROM TRIPPIN' FOR A DAY IN PARK CITY AND KAMAS, UTAH. BELOW IS AN ESTABLISHMENT THAT WE MISTAKENLY THOUGHT WAS THE ONE JIMMY KIMMEL HAD BOUGHT RECENTLY. DUH.
BELOW IS THE MAP TO ANTELOPE ISLAND STATE PARK- AND THIS PLACE WAS STUNNING! LESS THAN AN HOUR DRIVE NORTH FROM SALT LAKE, ONCE YOU ARRIVE, IT TAKES A FEW HOURS TO DRIVE AROUND AND TAKE THINGS IN.
HECKLE & JECKLE WERE THE RESIDENT RAVENS WHO WERE TASKED WITH GREETING US BEFORE SUNRISE....
SOME VIEWS WITHIN THE ANTELOPE ISLAND PARK WERE, LET SAY, "GRAND CANYONESQUE."
IN THE STATE PARK ACTUALLY SITS THE LONGEST CONTINUOUSLY OPERATED RANCH IN ALL OF THE USA.... SINCE THE MID 1800'S!! BELOW IS A REMNANT COVERED WAGON WHICH WAS MODERN FOR THAT DAY BACK IN TIME.
HAVING SPENT 3 MONTHS IN ALASKA YEARS AGO, AND ALSO HAVING VISITED YELLOWSTONE 3X, WE WERE QUITE SURPRISED TO ENCOUNTERED MANY MORE BISON ON THIS ISLAND THAN ANYWHERE ELSE WE'D BEEN! THERE IS SUPPOSEDLY A RESIDENT BISON POPULATION OF 600-700, AND WE THING WE SAW EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM CROSS THE ROAD AND DIFFERENT POINTS IN OUR JOURNEY TODAY.
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