Sahara

Okay. It wasn't the Sahara. Montana told me that numerous times. But man it felt like it. Five hundred miles of barren, dry, hot, nothing! The Salt Flats were amazing. I've never seen anything like that before and if I could figure out the photo thing, man, you guys would so be there with me! I pulled over and made Montana get out so I could get a picture with him in it. But I told him I was labeling it~'had enough and kicked him out!'. He didn't think anyone would believe that.

We started our day in Salt Lake City visiting the Mormon temple. Truly beautiful. Montana wanted to hang around and see the visitor center but they have greeters there and I didn't feel like we had enough time to convince someone I was truly happy being an Episcopalian and see the visitor's center so we skipped it. Maybe next time.

About halfway through the day Montana started singing "Follow the Yellow Brick Road". He's been humming the National Anthem for days so I felt this was definitely a step in the right direction. No pun intended. hee hee. So I went with the sister song, "We represent the lollipop guild" in a munchkin voice. Except I couldn't remember a particular verse. I called Sister #2 (Jeanette) who sings these songs as much as we do but no answer. So I called Ma. As there was no answer, I left her a message~ singing her the song on her voice mail in the munchkin voice asking her to please call back with the answer as quickly as possible. Since we have no patience I then called Sister #3 (are you getting the idea of how big the desert of Nevada is here Guys?). I told Gaco (a sad nickname but one she is tragically stuck with) that we would like to please access "Gacopedia". She saved the day. She knew the verse. Ma calls back. She is sad she does not have the answer. But oddly enough did not even flinch that I left that message. Hmm.

Finally hit beautiful country! Could Nevada actually have a redeeming quality?? I mean besides great roads? I am about a mile or two into the most beautiful mountainous terrain, astonished I had never heard of this part of Nevada before, when I see it. The "Welcome to California" sign. And there it is. Yeah. It was too good to be true.

Highway 20 in California is gorgeous! Seriously...stopped 6 times to take pictures. So pretty! There is a spot on the road where you see a river on your left and for some odd reason that has yet to be explained to slow me, it appears (it is only an illusion) to be flowing upstream. It was awesome. We were supposed to be at my friend Monica Sue's house at around 8:30pm. Got here at 9:30pm. Spent a good 30 minutes pulling over and looking at all the pretty everywhere! I know what you are thinking. What about the other 30 minutes? Well, let's just say, tomorrow we are buying an atlas. :)