![]() ![]() Talking about bathroom breaks, there are not too many rest stops that I have pulled into which have warning signs that give you the shivers (see below), but such was the case on our way to the Flats. It’s still in Utah but it was a good couple of hours drive away from where we were staying and so, we packed up a lunch, headed out, stopping only for crucial bathroom breaks, and tried to get there before the heat of the day made it too unbearable. Having come from a small island which is relatively easy to traverse (as long as the motorways don’t get snarled up), the vastness of the other places in which I’ve lived or lived close to never fails to astonish me: Australia, Canada and the US are HUGE places which can take days to cross whereas, in the time that it takes me to get across Ontario, if I lived in Britain, I could have driven to Croatia, which just seems bonkers, especially as there is some water in the way.Īnyway, this has to be taken into account with any trip around the States, even if you don’t actually leave the state you are visiting and so it was with Bonneville Salt Flats. Utah Day 2 had arrived and in order to get to the flats we had a long drive ahead of us. ![]() This was our final day in the Salt Lake area before we headed to our next KOA in Cedar City, where even more delights awaited. The Grand Tour blokes – top travel guides I am not a great fan of The Grand Tour, or certainly not in recent times as it has all got a bit silly, if you ask me, but there is one thing for which I will be eternally grateful to Hammond, Clarkson and May and it’s most certainly not the opening sequence to their chatting about cars news bit called Conversation Street: it is the episode about Bonneville Salt Flats when they were still on BBC’s Top Gear, which gave my husband the idea to visit it. ![]()
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