8/29/2022. Salt Lake City. Time with Friends

From Twin City we spent 3 enjoyable days with the Gaither’s.  Kim Gaither was a Girl Scout Leader a few(?) years ago with Sandy.  Kim acted as our tour guide and driver (which I very much appreciated).  The first day she showed us around the her town of Farmington (suburb of Salt Lake City),  arranged an enjoyable hike, and took us to lunch at a restaurant for delicious crepes.  The second day we traveled up into the mountains east of Ogden to Windsurfer Beach on a water reservoir.  I was amazed at the people along the reservoir enjoying outdoor sports by water skiing, kayaking, boating, stand-up paddle boards.  People around Salt Lake truly enjoy the outdoors.  After the reservoir we drove to farm stands for fresh fruits and vegetables.  I was surprised of the sheer number of farm stands.  They were scattered along every mile and the produce was very delicious and inexpensive. The third day we met Kim and Don for several early morning pickleball games.  We introduced the game to them in Mesa and they’ve been practicing ever since.  We’re going to have to make finding pickleball courts along our travels a priority to keep up with them.  Then another urban hike and more visiting and we had to say goodbye for now, but we’ll be through the area again as we traverse the country and look forward to more visits with them.

8/29/2022. Twin City and Salt Lake City Utah

We spent two nights in Twin City Utah checking out the town.  Twin City is an interesting town located along the Snake River.  It is also the launch site of Evil Knievel’s unsuccessful jump of the Snake River Canyon.  The pictures below show the ramp and the cement footers used to support the rest of the jump structure.  As it turns out Evil Knievel’s team determined that he could not make the jump on a Motorcycle so they built a rocket cycle with parachute to try the jump.  He never made it across the canyon and the parachute deployed.  

Also below is a picture the Perrine Memorial bridge which crosses the Snake River.  You can legally Base Jump off the top which is 486’ above the Snake River.  It is the 8th highest bridge in the United States.