Mom's Cafe in Salina, Utah

Friday - 25 March 2005 - Green River, Utah: Yesterday we drove to south of Salt Lake City and camped at the good-for-overnight Mountain Shadow RV Park. I woke early because of the noisy wind - and it was snowing! Time to fire-up the furnace and a pot of coffee!

We were out of town, heading south on I-15 just after 9 o'clock. Due to the snow storm, we would be unable to follow our planned/preferred route (Highway 6, which crosses a 10,000 foot pass) and would instead have to travel the Interstates. We passed a pickup on fire, surrounded by emergency personnel and a fire truck racing to the scene. No one was injured, but that is a heck of a way to keep warm in a snow storm.

At least our route would allow us to pass through the little town of Salina, Utah in time for lunch at Mom's Cafe. This place always gets rave reviews in the travel and road food guides. Jane and Michael Stern think Mom's is a great find. Mom's Cafe has even been featured in Gourmet Magazine. Anyway, we have been here before. The food is good, but they are really famous for the scones, which I feel are really sopapillas. The scones at Mom's Cafe are divine, and worth the stop. Today we had burgers and they were definitely pressed by-hand. Though they state directly on the menu that "everything is made from scratch from basic fresh ingredients", they serve their fabulous scones with the most awful "honey & butter FLAVORED topping". The stuff is pretty gross; like a soupy frosting. All the scones need is a little dab of honey and it would be heaven.

My burger and a sopapilla/scone


Mom's Cafe on a snowy day

DT also had a burger. He tried to order the drink special - lime drink. When he told the waitress he wanted a lime drink, she shook her head and told him, "It's 7-Up with a slice of lime in the glass." Guess she didn't figure him for the type of guy who would go for this quencher. What an amusing "drink special". He had orange juice. Our lunch was $11.10 and we were in the restaurant 23 minutes.

It was still snowing as we left Salina, driving east on I-70. For the next few hours we drove through blinding snow or light snow. We climbed to 7,200 feet and the temperature at one time was down to 29 degrees, but the road was never icy. On this stretch of the interstate there are no services for 140 miles, so if you need help - well, you have to wait for a long time. DT took it very slow, used the exhaust brake on the long, steep (I mean brake check area, run-away truck ramp steep) hills and we had no trouble. He's such a good driver. We pulled into Green River, Utah and called it a day.

The view from Our Intrigue all afternoon

Well, DT called it a day; I had orders to ship. I had to get the dish up, log on, print labels and get to the Green River post office before five o'clock! I arrived just as the door was being locked. The Post Mistress saw me, smiled, unlocked the door and stuck her arm through the door to receive my precious packets.

Tonight we will stay in, enjoy basketball and home-made chicken soup.

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