June 11th. Wendover to Salt Lake City, UT

Elevation 4,,390 ft. 117.4 miles. Part of Wendover is in Nevada and part in Utah. Crossing into Wendover, UT. we found ourselves in t;he Great Salt Lake Desert which is also where the Bonneville Salt Flats (known for speed records) are located.

This stretch of the rode has no vegetation -so there is no shade, the sun just beats you down. Morton has a salt processing plant here which seems very appropriate. Often you see tire tracks on the marsh and salt due to falling asleep behind the stearing wheel (very boring scenery).

Even though I had 3 flats and Don 2 flats we made it to Salt Lke City at 2:00 p.m. Very often we were crusing at 26 miles/hr.(strong tailwinds).

The Wasatch mountains make a beautiful backdrop as we approach Salt Lake City. At this point we have traveled 812 miles (20%of the way), average 74 miles/day and elevation gain of 32,380 ft.

Amy & John (a couple from Buffalo, NY. ), Skip, Don and I stopped to take pictures of the Salt Lake. The site should be familiar to my family due to a previous vacation (15years ago).


This Muslim looking building overlooks the Salt Lake - Jelica ,Margarita, Tomas and Danica do you remember this building?


Peace... on the Salt Flats in Utah.

Don and myself with Salt Lake in the background