Salt Lake City, Utah

After we left San Francisco we drove to Reno - where we camped out (picture below) for the night - and on to Salt Lake City. It was a days drive through Nevada, a long day, an unspectacular day. Look at a map of Nevada and you know why. No wonder the army operates secret test sites here. ;)

The funniest thing was a coke bottle exploding over Eva's lap while she was driving. This made my day!

This was the camp site near Reno where we stayed for the night.

I took this picture after crossing the border of Nevada/Utah at the visitor center. We still had about 1.5 hours before reaching Salt Lake City, but Nevada was behind us! :) Utah was going to turn out to be one of the most spectacular states during our visit.

More miles and miles of highway. The two lines in the valley are the east- and westbound lanes of Interstate-80.

The Great Salt Lake Desert west of Salt Lake City. The landscape to the left and right of the highway was salty white. Salt as far as your eyes could see. This picture gives an impression of how hot it was there.

We finally reached Salt Lake City in the evening and jumped right into the Salt Lake to experience its floating features. The water tasted really bad, but the fun definitely outweighed!

The next day we drove to the Temple Square, walked around and saw the Tabernacle and the Mormon Temple (picture), which cannot be visited by non-Mormons.

The Tabernacle, home of the famous mormon choir.

This is an 8-lane road in Salt Lake City (looking from the Eagle Gate, where Brigham Young lived), for the eyes of a german unusually wide and straight. Visible throughout the city were the constructions sites and cranes as preparations for the 2002 winter olympics were underway.

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