Road Trip: Day 1

Mammoth, CA to Salt Lake City, UT by way of Nevada

Dana and I started out from Mammoth a little after 8 am with an iPod, Portuguese lessons on CD (I can say "I speak a little Portuguese" in Portuguese. Spell it, not so much), some (healthy) snacks, and a readiness for travel.
The first two hours were pretty nice in terms of scenery (green, trees, mountains, ect- pretty much what Dana lives in a lot of the time). Then- the desert.

What else is in Nevada besides Las Vegas? Well. Rocks. Um..... Oh yeah, a town called Ely (pronounced E-Lee) that had a gas station and a nice little park to sit in while we ate lunch.

Then- more desert. So much flat area that I am far from used to. But pretty, I guess in its own way. Some areas it just looked like the world ended beyond the vastness.

We arrived in Salt Lake City a little after 7pm where we met Brooke and Daniel, friends of Dana's and our hosts for the evening, for a bit of Thai food and good conversation. She works for the IRC (International Rescue Committee) where she helps refugees who have come to live in the Salt Lake area, and he is a Fireman. Yeah. They're awesome.
Then to sleepies, to sleepies, jiggity jig.