Driving – Day Three – Salt Lake City to Sin City

Today was the shortest but hardest travel day.  I think the stress from yesterday’s drive was still with us when we started.  We couldn’t agree on where to have breakfast, so after we got the car packed, Tom stopped at McDonald’s for me, where I got a large coffee and a sausage biscuit with egg (which is good for a gluten free person, because I can just discard the biscuit and eat the sausage patty and the square scrambled egg neatly and quickly).  It was there that I learned Tom cut himself (badly) on the fridge, saving the bottle of wine I’d forgotten.

We continued our pattern of Tom driving first.  There was DENSE fog out of Salt Lake, which lasted for almost an hour.  The fog froze to the roadway in places, making for a slippery drive.  We did see one car that had hit the guard wall.  By the time we stopped for gas in Fillmore, UT, we didn’t need our jackets.  I turned in my boots for my blue suede shoes.

The views continued to be stunning.  Red rock mountains and gorges.  The Great Basin and all the Canyons.

We had lunch in St. George, Utah, the last town in Utah before the Arizona border.  We remarked that we hadn’t seen any wildlife on the trip except for the Bald Eagle.

We got to Las Vegas just after 2 pm.  We read and signed a mountain of paperwork and then started unpacking.  It was 63 degrees (and sunny) when we arrived – MUCH warmer than the weather back home (where it was below zero).  And... We can see the Stratosphere Hotel and Casino from our road.

We love the apartment, which is clean, well decorated, and very open.  The two disappointments are that the wifi they advertised is SUPER low speed and the two pools aren’t heated (as advertised).  One of the pools is actually under construction and the other is comparable to stepping into Lake Superior in the spring.  (Yes.  I walked into the pool.)  We ordered the high speed internet as we were signing the lease, so, I’ll be able to work from the apartment.

After we unpacked, Tom took me on a tour of Las Vegas, we had a quick dinner, went back to our apartment and collapsed.