Considering an American road trip

[Joe Bagadonuts]

There is one exception to this that my wife and I are going to go from SLC to Calgary (speaking of Banf), over to Vancouver, down through Seattle and back. Also, places like Reno and Tahoe we will drive. Or if we have some reason to go to Vegas. Other than that, we're not driving to AZ or any other locale. Sure, you can get places from SLC in 9 hours, but there ain't much between there. At least not that we haven't seen. So what I mean to say is we're not taking a car trip for the leisure of taking a car trip.

I took a very similar trip once, only in the opposite direction. We also included San Francisco, the Redwoods and Glacier National Park. Give yourself enough time because there's a lot to see. I think there's a ton between here and there in any 9 hour trip from the Wasatch Front as well. Get off the interstate. Take the state highways and back roads. You'll be amazed at how much you've missed. There's an awesome turn of the century malt shop in Roosevelt, a hot spring that the community has turned into a very unique free public soaking pool near Monroe, Skyline Drive with it's drop dead gorgeous scenery, Highway 89 and the chain of quaint towns along it, Mount Nebo, Simpson Springs bird refuge in the west desert on the Pony Express Trail, Butterfly Lake on the Mirror Lake Highway, Highway 6 (which some call the most beautiful highway in America), Coyote Gulch off the Hole in the Rock Trail and that's just a fraction of the great places I know about on Utah byways. Take a tent along and you can find a beautiful place to pitch it near practically any attraction that catches your attention.