Tuesday, July 23rd: Salt Lake City, UT or … just follow that bus!

My woman is getting excited when she thinks about tomorrow… First today though! 

Today’s ride is not so exciting: we go from one town into the other without even knowing when one begins or ends. Roy, Layton, Kaysville, Bountifull, North Salt Lake and I believe I’m forgetting some. A big sign of road work and detour worry us a little but we have learned to ignore those signs and to just keep going until we head into trouble. 

The only things we see are rows of red tons along the curb. But no one is working here! And if you want to know which route we took – just grab a schedule of bus 470 from Ogden to Salt Lake City! We followed the bus! Sometimes that’s good advice! 

In Bountifull the side walk was full with empty seats and blankets: at 4 p.m. the Pioneer parade was heading out!

My woman was tempted to stay and watch, but… she had some other business to take care off in Salt Lake City. Somehow we missed the Mac Donald’s just before North Salt Lake. Nothing to do now except to go on cycling. The not so scenic route into the big city takes us along refineries and a quarry, where new houses are being built too. 

But it is a bike route – no cars, except big trucks for the quarry! Hey woman, where are you going on 700 South? This is not the way to our hotel! Indeed, but she still has to pick up her number for the run tomorrow! They do not find her name on the list of runners, but after searching for Belgium, we find out she is registered under Renet Kroket! My woman bursts out in laughter! How funny to see this written on a list! Once we have the number, we return to the main drag close to the Temple. The Hilton Garden Inn will be our home again for a couple of days! Friendly people and good cookies!