We made the drive from Winnemucca, NV, to Salt Lake City, UT, in about 5.5 hours, crossing back into the Mountain Time Zone. There was a little more to see today as we drove through the Bonneville Salt Flats and also stopped to see the Great Salt Lake up close. The drive through the salt flats looks like a winter drive, with white on both sides of the road for as far as you can see.
Salt Lake City is not a big city with only a population of 180,000, but it is still one of the largest in the southwest. As everyone knows, it is also the center of the Mormon religion and so we took a tour of the Temple (see picture). The 30-minute tour was nicely done and they had toned down the hard sell from when I took it years ago. The acoustic demonstration in the Tabernacle is the highlight and still very impressive. They speak without a microphone and then drop 3 pins, which you can clearly hear halfway across the auditorium.
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