Salt Lake City is the home of the Mormon Church. The Mormons own a 35 acre complex in the heart of the downtown, known as Temple Square. The most impressive buildings in the Square are the Temple, the Tabernacle, the Assembly Hall, the Church Office Building, the Conference Center and the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. … Continue reading
We enjoyed our stay in the Utah mountains. Part of the reason we like home exchanging is that we don’t have to eat all our meals out while we’re traveling. Iit’s nice to have a kitchen and the comforts of (a) home. The kitchen at this exchange was really something special. Look at the view … Continue reading
We had thought about taking today off from skiing, but the weather report called for it to be really cold tomorrow, so we went skiing in Park City today, thinking that we’ll stay indoors tomorrow. It was relatively warm today. Since the holiday weekend ended yesterday, the slopes were pretty empty today. The Park City … Continue reading
Yesterday we drove to Robert Redford’s ski resort, Sundance. It’s about an hour from where we’re staying, on the way to Provo, Utah. We were expecting a quaint village with shops and restaurants since we thought this was the venue for the famous Sundance Film Festival held every January. It turns out that there is … Continue reading
We have no idea what “shredding the gnar” means, but that’s what Trevor says when he has a good day skiing. Our ski destination today was my favorite ski resort, Deer Valley, for a couple reasons: they don’t allow snowboarders; it’s less crowded than the other resorts (probably because it’s more expensive); and, it is … Continue reading
We’ve seen about a dozen deer in the last 24 hours. They are all over the mountain we’re on. We also see them along the roads. Today we drove into Park City and on the way we came upon this sign, which was just too good to pass up. I hope the deer can read. … Continue reading
The house we’re staying in is convenient to three ski resorts: Park City; Deer Valley; and, Canyons. And at the base of the mountain we’re on is the Rockport State Park which surrounds a lake that is frozen right now to a depth of 18 inches. As we were driving down the mountain this afternoon, … Continue reading
We had a nice flight out to Utah with a short layover in Chicago. O’hare is a very nice airport. We landed around 3:30 in Salt Lake City and had no trouble finding our home exchange hosts’ car that was left at the airport for us. It was about an hour drive from Salt Lake … Continue reading
The Road Less Traveled 