The Homestead Crater is a 12,000-year-old geothermal hot spring in Midway, Utah. And I got to soak in it. Concealed inside a 55-foot-tall limestone dome – Is it a mountain? Is it a hill? – it measures 400 feet wide at the base. The water itself is 65 feet deep…
Do you spend a lot of time sitting outside at home? I don’t know why, but I rarely do, despite having a nice big front porch and a very pretty backyard. When I’m on a trip, however, all I want to do is sit outside. It really doesn’t matter the…
Midway, Utah is a picturesque mountain town located about 45 minutes southeast of Salt Lake City. In the 1860s and 1870s, many Swiss immigrants settled here, causing Midway to be known as “Little Switzerland.” With the breathtaking Wasatch Mountains as its backdrop, many homes and businesses feature Alpine-style architecture with…
Located outside Zion National Park’s south entrance on Zion Park Boulevard in Springdale, Utah is Canyon Coffee. Sunny and 68 degrees, it was a gorgeous morning. Sitting at a table on the open-air patio with an iced vanilla latte, the unobstructed views graciously introduced me to the towering red sandstone…
After driving several hours on Nevada’s Route 93 South (click here), my husband and I came to our first town, Ely. We stopped at the only hotel we saw, a Holiday Inn Express, but they had no un-booked rooms that evening. The front desk person there told us a Ramada…
Having just landed in Salt Lake City earlier that morning, my husband and I had covered a lot of ground in the past six hours, making multiple stops in the city before heading west to the Bonneville Salt Flats (click here). Located close to the Nevada border, we found Route…
Leaving the Bonneville Salt Flats (click here), my husband decided to stop at the nearby Wendover Travel Center in Tooele, Utah. He had seen online that this store sells Salt Flats t-shirts and he wanted to check them out. While I waited in the car, I received a text message from…
It is summer, but soon it will be Labor Day, before we know it, time to deck the halls. With this in mind, I want to share a new discovery with you now so that you can plan ahead as we approach the holiday season. Have you visited a place…
I am a Sweaty Betty. Always have been, always will be. I don’t know if it’s an official gene, but I got it from my father who was the same way. Though there is no cure for the condition, there is a treatment: air blowing on my face. It doesn’t…
About 100 miles west of Salt Lake City near the Nevada border are the Bonneville Salt Flats. They are a densely packed 46-square-mile salt pan, a vestige of Pleistocene Lake Bonneville. The massive prehistoric lake covered much of the Great Basin region roughly 12,000 to 32,000 years ago. As the…
