June 16 - Salt Lake City and Antelope Island

                                                                                                                  

The convention ended at 3PM this afternoon.  Shelley and I packed up and started for Salt Lake City.

 

Views as we were leaving the convention grounds.

 

Salt Lake City

Mormon Tabernacle in the background.

 

 

Mormon office building

 

Mormon Tabernacle

with construction around it.

 

Utah State Capitol building 

 

Streets of Salt Lake City

all is very clean and neat.

 

Waterfall down the center of this building

 

 

Entrance to the park

 

 

Salt Flats on the way to Antelope Island

 

Great Salt Lake

 

Salt lake with sailboat and bird.

Many birds in this area.

 

 

Majestic rock formations

 

 

Why should the buffalo stay on the road?

 

It may be called Antelope Island

but all we saw of wild life was

buffalo and...

 

 

deer.

 

 

 

Beautiful views of lake and islands

 

 

The water was so still and reflections so pretty.

 

 

 

The causeway we drove on to get to the island

viewed from the island.

 

Anyone want to pick stones here?

 

 

 

When we saw there was a $9.00 charge to get into this park we wondered if it would be worth it and if we should go.  The decision was made to go and was well worth the money.  We were very glad we chose to go.

 

 

June 10 - Riverton                                                                                                               

We drove until 65 miles west of Larimie, WY, and spent the night on a large ranch of some of the friends.  What a lovely place.  Would have liked to spent a lot more time there.  There address is really Elk Mountain but they do most of their business in Larimie.

 

View of the mountain from the ranch

 

River that goes through their ranch.

I was driving over a one lane wooden bridge

with no sides.

 

Horses near their homes. 

After breakfast they were saddled and taken out on

the ranch.

 

Mountains the other way from the

ranch.

 

Main house

We had breakfast here but slept in another home.

 

Their mountain from farther down their dirt driveway.

 

We are at 8,000 feet so there is still snow in the

lower lands.

 

As you drive along in rather flat land you come

to these outcroppings all along the way.

 

The outcroppings turn into hills 

 

then cliffs some white, some red, some orange.

 

White capped mountains in the distance.

 

We had no trouble with my car but the other one had a flat tire.  Shelley noticed that it was

going flat so we called them to tell them.  We turned off at the next exit.  Even though it was a new tire they had to get a new one before we could go on.  We arrived in the Salt Lake City area at rush hour.  Shelley did a good job of following and we arrived at the convention grounds about 4:30.

 

 

View of convention grounds

 

 

Meeting tent

 

Camper site

 

Kitchen and dining tent

 

Flowers by my sleeping area

 

 

June 9 - Scottsbluff                                                                                                 

Today after the convention was over and before we started for Riverton, Utah, we did go to see the bluff.  The park was open. Shelley drove to the top and I took pictures.

 

Scottsbluff

 

 

There were several tunnels along the route up the bluff.

 

At the top

 

Vegetation - sage brush and cactus

 

 

The flatlands

 

Another view on the way down

 

Another tunnel with the rock wall on the other side

 

Almost to the bottom