Salt Lake City, Parting Thoughts
August 22, 2005
This story is a bit delayed, but I felt I still needed to get it published. This is my final story in the series related to my trip to Utah. I just wanted to get the rest of my images posted and talk briefly about some of the other cool things we saw.
We took a drive through Mt. Timponogos area which is a fantastic scenic drive including some snow topped mountains which were Sara’s favorites of course. On the way out of the mountains are a series of waterfalls including Bridal Veil Falls in Provo Canyon. Highly recommended scenic drive.
Sara also went to the Salt Lake City Public Library. The library is impressively large. She also too of the best shots we have of the city from the public roof observation area.
One night we took a ride out to Park City where many of the 2002 Olympic Games were held. I wasn’t super impressed with Park City though. It is an expensive area with an over abundance of of art galleries and the like. If you like that type of thing, it is the place for you, but not entirely my cup of tea. What we did see while there that was cool was them filming a scene for Everwood. The best part was standing in a crowd waiting to see “the star.” Clearly, the crowd didn’t know who they were waiting for as Treat Williams walked off the set and quietly up the sidewalk without a single person in the surrounding crowd even noticing. It was then that Sara and I also left, following towards our car and watched him enter his trailer. Hugely funny.
On our last day there we visited the Family History Library which is the home to a huge collection of genealogical information. I turned up a book on the Tirrell family there which was awesome. I intend on blogging that later, so more on this all later. If you visit Salt Lake though, I recommend a few hours here, but do as much of your family tree ahead of tie as you can. A majority of there best data is pre-1900.
As a final point of note, I’ll say that Salt Lake is a very clean and cultured city. I found more entertaining things to see in the area than I had imagined. The Mormons have had a positive effect on the community without being as overbearing as I thought they might be. You can still get beer in most restaurants and that’s all that matters to me.
Although, on that note, local Utah beers are overall a bit bland and not very interesting. I tried four different ones, some at micro breweries and was impressed with none of them. Including an oatmeal stout which is usually exactly what I’m looking for…
Tags: 2002 olympic games, beer, everwood, family history library, micro breweries, park city, salt lake city, scenic drive, timponogos, treat williams, Utah
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