On the way home

Well Joe, Shaq, Reese & the Mook and I are on our way home.

We are over nighting in Price Utah. A little mining town where we have stayed before.

If you are ever in Price, I recommend the National 9 Inn. It is dog friendly and has a good area for the kids to go romp after a day of driving. I highly recommend room 145.

The drive from Polaris to Price was interesting. It was very snowy and slushy through Idaho. We stopped in Idaho Falls and had lunch at one of my favorite brew pubs, the Brownstone. I recommend the Fish and Chips.

Afterwards we drove down to Salt Lake City. Along the way we went through a couple mountain passes that were a bit dicey. Not because of the weather, but because of the idiots on the road who should not have been there.

Ok, I learned to drive from famed Rally driver and Ice driver Satch Carlson in Alaska. In Alaska he is renowned for a few other things but that is another story. Satch taught me how to be confident in all kinds of driving conditions. And above all else, when in doubt hit the gas instead of the brakes. The theory is, if power can't get you out of whatever problem you find yourself in, the brakes will only make it worse. Witness that in over 30 years of driving I have NEVER been in a wreck. Several close calls but never a wreck. That means not one that I caused or even one that was inflicted on me. (very proud of that fact)

In Salt Lake we stopped for gas and to clean the wind shield and then a wonderful drive on Hwy 6 through a winding canyon that had these wind mills.


Tommorow we head towards Grand Junction to see the Dinosaur museum and a couple of other places and try to do the back roads across Colorado.