From Noelle’s polar steps: Left the Tetons this morning after a lovely sleep in a real bed. We grabbed some coffee and hit the road for Utah. We drove through southern Wyoming which was filled with a lot of farms and fields. From there we went I to Idaho for a little while where we saw the start of the insane real estate that would continue into northern Utah. We entered Utah and stopped at a grocery store along the road, used the restroom and then the whole store went black. Jake and I hurried out of the store and back into the car, looked at one another just to make sure the power outage wasn’t just a figment of our imagination. From there we continued up the hill, looking at the massively beautiful houses that stood with a gorgeous view of Bear Lake, the Mormons are lucky. We descended down the hill and found the other side of the mountain covered in snow, whereas the first side was warm and sunny. Past the snow the hills turned into massive rocky mountains with Aspens lining both sides of the road. We soon entered Logan, UT and started realizing how many churches there really were. That number only increased as we reached Salt Lake, this number increasing exponentially alongside the number of idiotic soda-addicted and caffeine-deprived drivers. It felt almost like driving through LA at rush hour, only 10 times the amount of pickup trucks. We got a recommendation for a cultural experience to stop at Swig, which is a soda stand. Here they simply add flavored sugar syrup into sugary sodas, quite an experience. Jake says he’ll just stick to regular soda. We checked into our hotel for the night and relaxed a little before walking over to get some dinner. We decided to bring it back to the room and watch some playoff basketball and relax. One more super long drive (almost 9 hours) tomorrow, and one more stay in Nevada City, CA before our trip is sadly over and we’re back to the normal insanity.
After our day in Park city we made the long and boring drive through the Nevada desert. we were so happy to be in our Sierra Nevada Mountains again and we settled into our Cabin in Nevada city. While there we hit the small town for dinner and got another amazing pizza and enjoyed the eclectic local scene. Cool looking enough to make you want to know more we listened into the chatter at the pub, but as soon as they started taking crypto tokens and their current pot harvest we decided to focus back on the food we had ordered. It was a beautiful evening in the California foothills and it was great to be back home.
The next morning we went down the hill to Davis. That morning was Noelle’s waterpolo banquet. There we were welcomed back and she was honored with being the MVP for the team. It was a great way to be welcomed back home.