![]() If something is in the way of the molecules, it can’t crystallize. Let me hit you with some science: when water turns to ice, it crystallizes. The foot washing station was closed, which should have been a sign. Large undissolved salt patch under the water. And according to my dad, didn’t taste like salt. I’ll be honest: I didn’t really like it.īut it gave us a chance to walk the flats a little. It was surrounded with barbed wire and looked strange with nothing around it except greyish white flat lands. It was for “Metaphor: The Tree of Utah,” an almost 90 foot sculpture just hanging out on the side of the highway. Shouldn’t there be a scenic overlook or something?įinally we saw a turn-off. People risked damage to their cars by careening off the highway onto the soft salt. And then there was the fact that there were no turn-offs. The salt was more grey than white and there was a wall of rocks in the distance, following the highway, jutting up at the horizon and making the salt flats a lot less flat than I would have imagined. Water pools at the low points, reflecting the sky above.Īnd yet it seemed. People have turned off the highway, leaving deep tracks in the salt, to write messages with rocks. ![]() Flanking the highway is a field of grey-white. Please excuse the reflection of my striped shirt.įor miles we weren’t sure what we were seeing. Bonneville Salt Flatsįrom the car window. We rented a car through Hotwire and were on our way. If I had booked Detroit to Salt Lake City, it would have been an extra $80 and they made a stop in Denver anyway. So I booked my two flights: Detroit to Denver, Denver to Salt Lake City. I went to Frontier Airlines and Spirit Airlines (my go-to cheap flight provider) and typed in Detroit to Denver. ![]() I typed “cheap flights to Salt Lake City” and Frontier Airlines came up with $39 flights from Denver. This is a story about why you need to do some research if you’re trying to travel cheap. ![]() I decided to give myself an extra day so I could check out some stuff. Sometimes you have to make your own adventures. I needed to travel to northern Nevada and the best way to do so was to travel to Salt Lake City and drive. Watching it all is the Morton salt girl, painted 100 feet tall on the side of a factory silo. It saturates the water and settles on the ground. ![]()
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