Salt Lake City

This is the landscape in Nevada from Reno to the Utah border. Very barren with scruffy dessert scrub brush. The only interest on the drive was a herd of about 6 wild horses and some cowboys rounding up a herd of cattle. Sorry, no pictures of these events. When going 75 mph on the interstate it is hard to get these types of pictures.

As soon as we crossed the border into Utah, there were the salt flats. We drove for about 45 miles before we came upon more dessert looking areas. We saw the Bonneville Salt Flats, also.

This is the Morman temple in Salt Lake City. It took 40 years to build in the 1800's. It is built of granite that was transported from a valley some distance away. Each stone took 4 days to transport then it was hand carved into the correct sizes and shapes to build the temple. The labor was all volunteer with church members volunteering one day out of 10.

This is the beautiful organ in the Tabernacle. The Tabernacle was also built in the late 1800's for a meeting place for the faithful. It was built with unbelievable accoustics so that the prophet could be heard when speaking (no microphones in 1800). Shortly after this picture was taken, one of the volunteers did an accoustic demonstration. She spoke to us without a microphone and we could hear her perfectly while seated about 100 feet away. She tore a piece of paper into about 6 strips, then she dropped 3 pins and a small nail into a dish. We heard each item perfectly. We were also fortunate to hear the Morman Tabernacle Choir accompanied by the orchestra perform their weekly live radio/TV program. It was awesome. The choir has 360 members and the orchestra has 110 members. All are volunteer musicians, they must be between 25 and 60 years of age, live no more than 100 miles from Salt Lake City, and can perform a maximum of 20 years.

A view of The Great Salt Lake. There were lots of sailboats on the lake. We did not take a lot of pictures because there were not many viewing areas. The area around the lake is very flat and there are no roads that run near the lake.

I just had to put my hand in the lake. It was cold and very salty.

On to southern Utah on Monday.