Salt Lake

Natalie and I drove into Salt Lake City right at sunset yesterday...it was beautiful. If you haven't been there it is basically a city surrounded by huge snow covered mountains. To drive there down I-80 you drive between mountains...there really isn't anyway to describe how beautiful it was.
Salt Lake is a bit of an interesting city...we went downtown for dinner and the place was deserted. We drove past several Mormon monuments :)
Today we took a mostly break day from driving. We had a leisurely morning and went to REI to get advice for the day. We ended up bypassing downhill skiing (I am still wary of hurting my hip) and did cross country skiing. We had an amazing day. We got a recommendation to go to Mill Creek Canyon, so that is what we did. We skiied up 4 miles...it didn't feel like we were going up the whole time but we realized on the way down that we were. Then we headed back down. Cross country skiing down a hill is not the same as downhill skiing...the skis are longer and just awkward and we didn't really know what we were doing, so basically we both fell a lot on the way down. We did get better as we made our way down. It was a really fun day out in this beautiful canyon.
Now we are in Twin Falls, ID. Tomorrow is the last day of long driving...should be 6 or 7 hrs to Bend then we will hang there and in Portland for the weekend and then go up to Seattle.
Honestly I still don't feel like I have left Nashville behind...think it will take having Natalie leaves me and starting the new job to feel like I am really going to be gone for awhile. Still seems very surreal. And this has been such a fun trip that it just feels like vacation...even with all the driving.
A few pictures..