Salt Lake City Area

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No visit to Salt Lake is complete without a stop at the Salt Flats.
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A salt desert, you can see the curve of the Earth here!
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Hanhan, not trusting the signs, tasted the salt flats.
It's salt.
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Going to get Mormon history.
Very interesting.
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The LDS Temple.
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Tabernacle and Temple.
It was supposed to rain. Really!
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Lots of Mormon's had to pull a hand cart because they had lost everything in Illinois and Missouri.
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The Angel Moroni stands atop the Temple.
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A rocket factory and test area is about 3 miles from the Golden Spike site.
Just 100 years seperate the rail feat from the moon landing.
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The Great Salt Lake.
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I decided to trust that the lake is actually salty.
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Old train station in downtown Salt Lake.
Very nicely restored.
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Garden in front of Brigham Young's house.
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The flowers are very dense and colorful.
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This was called Lion House.
Lion is one of Brigham Young's nicknames among Mormons.
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Hanhan on Mars.
Missed a turn using Google Maps...
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Stupid Great Basin rattlesnake!
They are rare. They'll be more rare as soon as I kill this one.
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We visited the University of Utah's garden.
Everything was in full bloom.
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English Garden
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Roses abound here.
This one was very fragrant.
The front of the Temple.