19th May:
It’s a sad day as we have left our favourite place, the Grand Tetons and made our way to Salt Lake City ready for our trip back to Las Vegas tomorrow and our flight home on Sunday.
Welcome to Jackson …….. rather goodbye!
Rather Goodbye to Jackson!
As it’s been a driving day there’s not a lot of action to report but I did take a few photographs as we travelled along. Our trip took about 5.5 hours and was uneventful.
One large cow
The long road
Interesting!
A farmer hard at work
This will take a while!
What a beautiful tree!
On the Oregon Trail
We did thank you very much!
I was going to describe the chicken photograph a different way but Si wouldn’t let me for for fear of upsetting some of our lovely readers as it could construed as rather crude!! 😂Answers on a postcard please!!
A sweet little house on wheels plus chimney!
We were serenaded on our trip by the lovely John Denver.
The majority of our journey was on small country-like roads. It wasn’t until we were about two-thirds into the journey that we joined the Interstate with it’s 80mph speed limit!.
The only animals we saw were cows, lots of them and one dead elk!
Is this Switzerland?
On one occasion we saw something in the road, it was a marmot and we thought it was dead but it wasn’t until we passed, good thing we didn’t run over him, we realised he was playing dead and as soon as we were by he scuttled back to the side of the road!
Some parts of the journey reminded us of Switzerland.
Once in Salt Lake we decided to eat immediately and so drove down to the Texas Roadhouse. Somewhere we’ve eaten at many times.
However, there was one problem today, they wanted to see our ID to make sure we were old enough to drink!!! 🤷♀️The only ID they would accept were our passports. Good grief, we don’t carry our passports all the time now that we have photographic driving licences but they were not good enough. We walked out in high dudgeon. 🤨
We went along the road to the Olive Garden instead. They were rather more sensible about the whole thing and agreed that we looked old enough to drink so we stayed there and had a fabulous meal of soup (as much as we liked) with bread sticks, then I had sirloin steak with fettuccini, Si had chicken and prawn carbonara and then we shared doughnuts with chocolate and raspberry dip. Yummy!!
Si enjoying his dinner today
That’s two places we will not be returning to …………… Denver because of their ridiculous taxes and the Texas Roadhouse in Salt Lake City.
It was a lovely 52ºF when we left this morning and by the time we reached Salt Lake City it was a barmy 78ºF. 🌞 We travelled from Wyoming, through Idaho, back through Wyoming and then Idaho again and finally into Utah.
Thanks for reading. See you in Las Vegas!
A long drive for you, arriving safely at SLC, stupid rule about the ID when you are obviously old enough to have a drink 😳🍻. Are you finding things more expensive in general ? Eating out and fuel especially? Enjoy you last few days 😀
Thanks Ann. Just catching up! Fuel’s the one thing we noticed, that’s up. Food about the same. xx
I can’t believe it’s nearly over! This has gone SO quickly. Well you both obviously look just SO young! Enjoy the compliment and as you say drink somewhere else! 🤣 Good to know madness rules everywhere.
Hi, it all goes too quickly. Yes, agree, madness rules everywhere! x
I cannot believe they wouldn’t let you have a drink even if you didn’t have your passports! that is crazy! glad you didn’t have to go far to get what you needed!! Thank you Olive Garden! What a long boring drive! I cannot believe tomorrow is your flight back! lets hope its uneventful and speedy. xx
Hi Nat, yes it was stupid. We felt sorry for the young girl who had to give us the news. It’s gone very quickly. xx