We Return South

We were glad to see the last of Yellowstone and we made our way south through the smoke of forest fires.  Stayed two nights at Vernal UT to visit a dinosaur museum/excavation exhibit and get a software update for the truck.

Downtown Vernal UT

Vernal is a very pretty small town and the excavation exhibit was quite interesting.  The building was constructed around a cliff face where bones were weathering out.  There were problems with the structure and it was not open to the public for several years while the structure was stabilized.

Dinosaur Quarry

On to Heber City UT outside Salt Lake City.  A friend from my Sprint days, Molly Stephens, and her husband Mark, live in Park City.  We met them for lunch one day.

A second day at Heber, we drove down to Salt Lake City to see the Salt Lake City Mormon Temple. A guide told me it took 40 years to complete the temple.  Would compete with some of the cathedrals I saw in Europe.  You can tell the scale by the photos that a nice person in the square took of me on the front steps.  

Salt Lake City is a very well planned and efficient city.  Their public transportation is a trolley system; it's clean, quiet, and fast. Would that other cities take a look at it.

We left Heber City bound for Marysvale UT to scout off-road trails for next summer's travels.  Not much there but we did get some good information.  

Next stop was Panguitch UT, also to scout trails. but we were greeted with a funnel cloud the day we checked in.  The locals were all aflutter as this type of storm is rare in this area.  I took the photo below from the RV park.

Panguitch tornado

We drove up to Richfield UT to talk with an ATV dealer who has a good reputation in the area and he sent us to Fish Lake for lunch.  Very pretty area.  I have been on a quest for a new visor but none of the places we've been had visors, only hats.  YEAH!!!  Bowery Lodge at Fish Lake had a visor!