Salt Lake City & Drive to Wyoming

6/19/24 - We started our day with a guided tour of the Utah state capitol building. We saw their Supreme Court (seats for 5 justices and about 20 other people in the tiny room), Senate and House chambers, and the outside of the governor's office. It was a beautiful building.

Pat's favorite part...seeing the earthquake isolators they installed under the foundation in the past 10 years!

Our next stop was Temple Square...the "headquarters" for the Latter Day Saints religion. We were blown away with the massive buildings!

The temple...completely scaffolded and getting two entry buildings added

The temple is also getting a new earthquake foundation added. Amazing engineering & construction!

The choir hall (in the conference center across the street) seats 21,000 people!!!

The "office building"? Pat read LDS was almost broke in the 1960s. Then they started investing and they don't seem to be hurting for money now!!

Our next stop was Antelope Island State Park (about 40 minutes NW of SLC) to see the Great Salt Lake. Not a beautiful place (lots of gnats and a sulfur smell) but we did see bison, pronghorn antelope, and 2 coyotes.

The Great Salt Lake

Our last stop of the day was a delicious Italian dinner in Salt Lake City.

6/20/24 - We drove approximately 8 hours to get to our RV park SE of Grand Teton National Park. We took the Mirror Lake Scenic Bypass for some mountain and waterfall scenery.

Along the way we saw sandhill cranes, pronghorn antelope, lots of sheep, a MASSIVE ExxonMobil property with a large refinery, and a frolicking baby cow.

We were delighted to find out our spot at the RV park backed up to the fast flowing Wind River

Pat enjoyed casting into it (again no luck!) and we both enjoyed relaxing to the sound of the water rushing by