Over the past couple days we've traveled through:
- Salt Lake City
- Moab, Utah
- the southwest corner of Colorado
- Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Amarillo, Texas
Salt Lake City:
The population of Utah is 2.9 million, with close to half those folks (1.2 million) living in the Salt Lake area. And they all seemed to be driving the interstate on the day we went thru town.
The I-15 is five lanes each way, and it was jam packed with vehicles when we arrived in Salt Lake at 12:30pm, and then again when we left at 6 the next morning. There was road construction at every on/off ramp which didn't seem to slow down traffic too much, but the ramps (scattered with a squillion pylons) were difficult to navigate while driving a 36 foot rig plus a tow car.
And then we got stuck behind a freeway accident.
The kind of crash where it's clearly marked by numerous road signs that you have to merge right, yet most of the traffic shoots by you in the left hand lanes only to cut in front of cars at the front of the line. Normally I just find that marginally irritating but in an RV it's also really dangerous since so many of these jokers don't realize we can't stop on a dime just cause they wanna budge in without signalling. And the morons were doing the same thing to all the truckers in the line-up. I truly loathe narcissistic drivers who do this. Idiots.
Okay, calm down... just breathe. In with the good air, blah blah blah...
The bright side of our SLC visit was dry camping (which I've discovered I lovelovelove) in the parking lot of Cabelas (a huge fishing/hunting/camping outlet store) where My Fella picked out a new fishing rod for his birthday. We paid $40 (USD) for a rod that would have cost $80 (CAD) at a sporting goods store in BC.
We left Cabelas at 6 on Saturday morning heading south towards Moab, Utah (pronounced moe - ab, not mobe).
Here's some Utah scenery along the way... hover over the pics for my lame description.
Interstate driving in Utah may be a nightmare, but I gotta admit the rock formations are pretty awesome.
It's after 8 and I'm starting to yawn like Shelbert in the above pic, so I'll post more of our Utah/Colorado/New Mexico/Texas pics en la manana.
p.s. I'm waaaay behind on the blog since we've been boon docking so much but we're in Longview, Texas right now where it's still 23C at 8:30pm. There are a billion stars outside the windshield and the frogs are singing so loud My Fella can barely hear the tv.
I'd rather listen to the frogs :)
We have never traveled I-15 through SLC when there has not been construction!
Fishing rod = $40, Money saved by not paying for an RV park = +/- $35. End cost of fishing rod = almost free!
We have been boondocking more and more while we travel. The long drive the next day keeps the batteries charged and the $ saved helps the gas budget. Win - win. We have found that many rest areas have dumps.
Posted by: Croft | October 25, 2011 at 11:19 PM
Mexi-Croft - despite the construction, it seems like the I-15 thru SLC is the best way to get south in a hurry. Or have you guys find a better route? Please share so we can swipe it from you!
p.s. I love boon-docking. We dry camped 5 of the 9 nights it took to get down to the Gulf Coast and I'm itching to do more.
Posted by: kelsi | October 27, 2011 at 07:00 PM