Today we arrived in Salt Lake City after a not-too-long drive across the Salt Flats. Once we reached the western edge of the Salt Lake Valley the adventure really began. Our destination was Mountain Shadows RV Park in Draper. Draper is in the southeast corner of the valley and we were entering from the opposite corner. No worries, we have "Gypsy" our state of the art Rand McNally Good Sam GPS. It seemed to have us routed on a western belt route that would bypass the melee of I-15 and skirt around on the west side then sweep east at the south end of the valley and deposit us right where we need to be. But then things started getting a bit off kilter. First Gypsy had us heading way west to avoid some road construction. I mean WAY west. Like we thought we may end up in the Kennecott Copper Mine. It seems Gypsy really dislikes crowds and had us taking quite the circuitous path around the valley. Between us making our decisions and Gypsy's directions we did end up on the aforementioned belt route that took us neatly into Draper. Then things got REAL wiggy as Gypsy directed us into a condo complex. You know the kind that has one lane roads winding through a maze of condo's with metal parking covers interspersed throughout? At first we thought it might be the access as we could see RV's just on the other side. But no, we were caught in an RVer's nightmare. And we weren't the first, almost every parking cover we passed had a scar from a tall vehicle colliding with it. I was sweating like some kind of farm animal - and I wasn't driving! Dave piloted us safely and calmly until we found a maintenance guy who gave us directions out. And added, " I can't believe you've gotten this far with that thing." Nice. We made it out and the 100 feet to the entrance to Mt. Shadows. This is a nice park - clean, lots of grass (Simon gives it a tail up and a wag). Which is a good thing because as far as we can tell it is one of TWO RV parks in Salt Lake Valley. It does have kind of a strange feature though. They have the pull-through spots aligned so two rigs share a common utility strip which means you pull in from opposite directions. Seems to make sense, except it means your front door is facing your next door neighbors front door across a grassy lawn area. And in our case that's a pretty skinny strip. And our front doors end up aligned directly across from each other. The good news is we have a really pleasant couple next door who just left Zion Nat'l Park and gave us some helpful info. Thankfully we don't have Cousin Eddie (National Lampoon Christmas Vacation) parked there.
Needless to say we were ready for a beer after our harrowing arrival. Once we got set up we headed out in search of a suitable spot for lunner and happened upon a place with wings and microbrews. What luck! And there was a Smith's (where we can use our Fred Meyer points card!) right close by. And to top things off there is a Camping World about a block away from where we are staying. Life if good! Even in Utah!
Ya gotta love the Wasatch Front.
(Sorry for so few pictures. It wasn't a picture-taking kind of day.)
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