We made it to the Bonneville Salt Flats yesterday and what a mind-boggle that was. What looked like miles and miles of snow-covered ground is actually SALT and the temperature was near 100 ! The Salt flats are a unique feature of Utah geography/geology.
Imagine a place so flat you seem to see the curvature of the earth, so barren not even the simplest life forms can exist- plant or animal. Imagine the passing thunder of strange vehicles hurtling by on a vast dazzling white plain. This is not an alien world far from earth; it is Utah's famous Bonneville Salt Flats and where folks come from all over the world (including Wever, Iowa) to see how fast they can go.
We stopped at a rest stop just before Wendover and Norm was thrilled to find the four Ford Formula 1's, that had whizzed by us earlier, in the parking lot. He chatted up the owners who told him they'd been racing and there had been 87 Formula 1 cars at the track. They said they were on their way to Wendover for lunch. Norm thinks they were really going for a "lap-dance" as – on that's what all the billboards advertise along Highway 80 heading toward the Flats.
We tromped around for just a bit on the salt, but found that the heat fairly unbearable as well as the blinding light, so it was back in the car and on to Wendover for us. We took a curious peek in one of the casinos and eat a late lunch/early dinner then checked in to our motel. It was another great day on the long road home.....and the beat goes on.
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