Standbo: Leaving Nevada...

We did not get good sleep last night, as it seems the place we stayed last night was a hang out for outlaws. We were awakened around midnight to the sounds of an argument coming from the room across the hall. They had the door opened as they were trying to get one of the 3 women and 4 kids husband to leave the room. It got quite heated and security finally came up and simmered the situation by forcing the drunk guy to leave. We were just about asleep again when we heard the sound of loud knocking. We jumped back up and looked through the peephole to witness several Elko police officers knocking on the door next to the last troublemakers room. We watched for half an hour while the police tried to get into the room, but nobody would answer the door. I went and laid down, so I do not know how they got them to open the door, but next thing I know there is a lot of yelling going on in the hallway. It lasted 30 minutes or so and ended with some arrests. Apparently there were several guys in that room and they had been involved in a bar fight downstairs that ended up busting some chairs in the bar, and it was all on surveillance video. We went back to sleep for an hour or so and were awakened again by some yelling in the hallway again.
The drunk guy was back and he wanted to see his wife. Some other guy was in the room and an altercation broke out somehow sending the drunk guy crashing into our locked door. Security came again and sent the drunk guy away, uttering lots of curse words as he left. Then we slept.....

We got up around 9, got dressed and were gone by 10. Goodbye wild west...yikes. We did stop by a second hand store on the way out of town. I was looking for a six shooter, but they did not have any on hand. We drove until we hit the border of Utah, and It was quite a sensory shock as we came over the last mountain in Nevada and saw the salt flats. It was strikingly white and different than what we were used to seeing. This picture really doesn't do it justice.

Coming over the last hill in Nevada.

Right over the border at the bottom was the exit for the Bonneville salt flat raceway, so we had to get off and check it out. It was only 4 miles off interstate 80.

There is the sign for the salt flats

Click on it if you want to read it

One of the race car drivers

That is actually salt...

We then continued east until we saw the Great Salt Lake, which surprisingly looked a lot like a big version of lake Mead in Nevada. We didn't take any pictures because we wanted to get to Salt Lake City and I thought we could see it from the city, however I was mistaken as you cannot. We toured the city for a couple of hours viewing the Mormon Temple and whatnot.

One of the important Mormon Buildings

After leaving Salt Lake we stopped at Park City, which is just out of Salt Lake, and was home to the 2002 Winter Olympics. It was an absolutely beautiful town, We can see why they choose it as the location for the Olympics.