Daily Archives: June 4, 2010
Draper UT…
Today we left the Rock Springs WY KOA about 9:45 heading about 190 miles south to Draper UT, which is a southern suburb of Salt Lake City.
This KOA, like other parks in the western states is just a big gravel parking lot, and we had a great view of some petroleum storage tanks. At least they weren’t BP tanks. No telling what could happen.
And, of course, every RV needs trees, so here they are. These are the only trees in the park, or anywhere around.
But at least the view in the other direction was pretty good.
As we moved down I-80 the scenery just got better and better.
A little further down the road, we started to see more and more of the snow-covered Rockies off to our left. Luckily we didn’t have to go over them, though we did crest out at over 7000 feet again.
It’s hard to see here, but there’s a big American flag flying on the top of this hill.
The view as we came down into this valley was just breath-taking.
Somewhere alone here, Mister decided he liked the view better the other way.
Then as we got closer to Salt Lake City, the scenery started to change a little, more rolling green hills, less jagged rocks.
We got into Mountain Shadows RV Park in Draper UT about 2 pm and got set up. It’s a nice park, a little tight, but it does have the perfect amount of trees. Just enough to look nice and provide some shade, but not enough to block the satellite.
And the view isn’t too shabby, either.
About 5 pm we drove over to Guadalahonkys restaurant to meet Pat and Judy Benson, our friends we first met in Fairbanks AK two years ago.
Guadalahonky’s turned out to be really good. Of course it may be because we’re just getting closer to Mexico.
We’ll be here until Monday, visiting, sightseeing, getting prescriptions, working on the coach, etc.
Then we’ll be heading further south toward Show Low AZ.
More tomorrow…
