On Sunday we left Salt Lake City very early to get a head start and beat some of the desert heat. And good thing we did! We drove through the rest of Utah and the Great Salt Lake Desert, which was very cool and hilarious to see all the white salt that looks almost like snow. Morton salt company and another company even have mines there and along the lake. Huge mountains of salt, how weird.
Welcome to the Great Salt Lake Desert!
Matt REALLY wanted to stop on the side of the highway towalk on the salt... he wanted to drive onto it too, but we didn't.
Morton Salt
The AC in the car had been going in and out since a few days before we left GR... and it was still working in the morning as we drove through that first stretch of desert. However, soon after we entered Nevada, it went out for good. Leaving us to drive through the entire state of hot Nevada in the late morning and early afternoon without AC! We figured we could deal with it, even though it was rather uncomfortable, but were a little worried about Samson in the backseat. We ended up getting a towel wet with cold water and covering him with it; which actually seemed to work quite well. Matt and I, on the other hand, were starting to feel pretty fatigued by the heat. Thank goodness for all those mountain ranges with slightly cooler air to help us out. We finally made it through Nevada, then slowly through the mountains as we entered Cali, then slower yet in a bit of Sacramento traffic, until we FINALLY reached Melinda's house in Woodland!! Scott was in town too and we all went out to a fabulous dinner at a local Mexican place. Oh how we have missed our college friends! Melinda and I practically had the giggles all through dinner, out of sheer excitement to be together :). Simply wonderful.
OH! I almost forgot... Samson had a great time playing with Melinda's dog, Kronk. He is a pit bull and gave Samson a run for his money!
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