Wednesday July 12th 2017

Today was a travel day from West Wendover NV to Provo UT. I slow rolled my departure preparations until I 10:45. It was just fifteen minutes before check out time when I pulled out of the RV park. The guy waiting to “clean” the site was hovering down the row of empty sites waiting for me to leave. With only 160 miles to travel, I didn’t want to get to my destination before the 2pm check out time.

Site A13 at the Utah Lake State Park.

My trip had two distinct parts. The first one hundred and ten miles was through open territory. Sitting high in the motorhome it was possible to see more of the salt flats. Crossing the flats in a car it is not possible to see the surface of the salt flats beyond the raised berms for the road and train tracks. In the motorhome the white expanse of the salt flat seems endless. The downside is the additional white surfaces increased the glare. Even with sunglasses it was bright. Nearer to Salt Lake City, I had a similarly improved view of the Great Salt Lake. The higher vantage point made the lake look a little more impressive.

Once I reached Salt Lake City the nature of the trip changed completely. Instead of light traffic in open spaces, it became heavy traffic in the concrete jungle of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area. The last forty miles was on Interstate 15 with four or more lanes in each direction interspersed with both right and left exits along with an HOV lane. The scenery was only a bunch of shops and businesses, but I didn’t have time to look at it. I had plenty of traffic to navigate.

View in front of my RV home of Utah Lake and through the haze the mountains to the north beyond.

I arrived at the Utah Lake State Park in Provo Utah around 2PM. I setup in the hot sun of the heat of the day. The clouds moved in for a while later in the afternoon, but the bright sunshine has returned as sunset approaches. The campground isn’t full which is apparently normal for the middle of the week in July. The marina and day use area is not as busy as normal because the lake is experiencing a Blue-Green Algae Bloom. Signs have been posted warning people to stay out of the water. The algae won’t impact my stay. I’ll be here until Tuesday the 18th.