Salt Lake City KOA | Red Rock Brewery

Tuesday - 21 May 2002: Salt Lake City, Utah - Hey, we decided to go to Salt Lake City! Neither of us had visited here before, so we are checking out the tourist spots for a few days. We left Glenn Ferry, Idaho this morning at 10:00 a.m. It was cloudy, windy and COLD. We bumped along Interstate 84 for several miles until the road turned smooth and we could enjoy the views. GOOD NEWS! Last night (via the Buffett web-group), I sold my extra Sunday "single" Jimmy Buffett concert ticket to a girl in Phoenix!  We deposited the ticket into the FedEx drop-off at a truck stop... suspicious enough, but it works!
 
I keep telling my driver: "Honey, I just want to go on a vacation in the RV where I can use the air conditioner, instead of the furnace." Does he listen to me? As we dropped down into Utah, the skies became very dark and the wind picked up. It was raining off and on. Lightening flashed to the west. A little while later, it began SNOWING! A van slipped off the road and into a ditch. Trucks slowed to 10 mph. Here is our view on I-84 this afternoon:

The weather isn't here...

The good news is that this snow didn't last long, or I should say, it only stuck on the ground for about 5 miles and then it was mixed snow and rain until we were about 20 miles north of Salt Lake City. We are now camped for several days, and we have a phone line at our site ($3 extra per day) so I will be able to post many photos without a killer cell phone bill! The campground is not very highly rated, but it is about one-mile from downtown, so we decided to give it a try. It really is nice, with everything we need and a great location!
 
We stayed home early in the evening, catching up on the evening news, laundry and keeping the furnace running - it was COLD! It rained on and off all evening. At about 8 p.m., we took the BC2 into the big city of Salt Lake and did a drive-by of Temple Square and the downtown area. We were looking for the Red Rock Brew Pub. We found the Red Rock - the streets are a confusing-at-first mix of numbered East's and West's, North's and South's... the central point being, of course, the Temple. The Red Rock was really hopping on a Tuesday night! It was a very attractive place, with a huge menu. They serve about 6 types of their own beer (and Bud in the bottle for weenies like me), wine and also a full bar. DT had a chopped salad and we shared beer-battered fish and chips (fresh halibut flown-in fresh daily).  DT said, "Do you notice anything strange about the crowd?" I scanned the faces and it hit me – every one of the several-hundred diners was white.

RV Park: Salt Lake City KOA