It didn’t start out that way. Our first plan was to go to the Bonneville Salt Flats where the Southern California Timing Association would be running high-speed trials and then go north to Glacier National Park and Montana’s Bitterroot Valley for the fall color. Then Bonneville got rained out so it was just Glacier the Bitterroot Valley and then they got smoked out by the West’s increasingly nasty wildfires. Michele suggested we just go to one of our favorite places, the Escalante Canyon area, and stay at the Boulder Mountain Lodge.

Then we decided to add Salt Lake City since all either one of us have done is drive through Salt Lake on our way to someplace else and it is a big city. The fastest way to drive through Nevada to Salt Lake is on Highway 80 which is also the least interesting drive but it is interesting enough so that’s the plan.