Salt Lake City, October 2 to ??

After the cold weather and snow in Yellowstone Park, Wyoming (and no cell phone service, electricity, or internet), we were happy to move our home south to the somewhat lower elevation at Salt Lake City in Utah. We stayed at a KOA campsite for the first time. It has all the services, including free WiFi internet access.

Janet went swimming in the Great Salt Lake, which has a salt concentration at least 5 times that of the oceans. (I watched our dogs). She said it tasted like a salt gargle for sore throat. The water was so bouyant that Janet could float on her stomach with her head out of the water, but she could hardly get her feet below the surface to swim!

Yesterday, we went to the Temple Square, which is the number one tourist attraction here. We didn't know till we got there and saw thousands of people on the streets, but this weekend there were over 100,000 Mormons at the Temple Square to hear their current living prophet. We watched a movie about the life of their first modern-day prophet, Joseph Smith, and learned what terrible persecution the Mormons have suffered, in the eastern U.S. and in Europe, due to their different beliefs. The Mormon buildings and people are beautiful. Their conference centre here holds 21,000 people---they held five sessions for each event to get all of their people in! We went on a tour led by a young lady from Finland and a young lady from Brazil. They are both Mormon sisters here in Salt Lake City for two years of training before they return home.

We ordered our mail to be delivered here (from our mail forwarder in Texas). Since it hasn't arrived yet, we're not sure how soon we can move further south.