SLC again

I forgot to mention, for those who know me well, I had looked online before hand for which places were getting great reviews. I wanted to be sure to find somewhere that wasn’t a chain restaurant. The dinner place I earmarked turned out to be a much bigger walk than expected but we were ok with that. We had a lovely dinner at Oasis Cafe. The setting was also good. They had a fair sized courtyard with planting, art etc to set the mood. The roof over the courtyard was cloth draped, similar to what we saw in Dubai. The food was predominantly organic, which is always a bonus.

We checked out of our hotel fairly early as we had a couple of things to do before heading off for the 5 hr drive to Yellowstone. First up was another internet find, Tulie Bakery. Such delicious pasties and the best coffee we have had so far. It was in a suburban street about 2km from our hotel and for me was like a little touch of Melbourne. They asked where we were from and seemed thrilled to know we had come from Australia to their cafe, because of the internet reviews. I had an almond croissant. So deadly rich I had to hand at least 1/3 to Mark.

From there it was off to Wholefoods (my fav USA supermarket). They have the most amazing and large range of food. Again the food is mostly organic and all is ethically produced. We bought up enough to take a few basics to Yellowstone as I don’t fancy being trapped somewhere with only cafeteria type food. They were so great at Wholefoods. Several times as we strolled and Mark was in retail heaven, different staff asked if they could help us find something! Now that doesn’t happen at Coles! Food bagged and packed in ice they kindly provided in bags for us we headed off to find an adventure sports store Mark had looked up as he wanted a particular pair of shoes. The address he had turned out to be their distribution centre for many brands. The shop was very small but it turned out they had a storage area the size of Bunnings, and several computers around the shop to look up and write down what you wanted. They would get someone at the storeroom to bring it up for you to try. The biggest range I have seen anywhere and Yes, Mark got shoes! Alas it took longer than we had hoped and we didn’t really get away from SLC until nearly 1pm.

A taste of the highway drive in northern Utah. Mountains impressive, highway NOT!! During our drive to Yellowstone, surprisingly we went to 4 different states. Starting in Utah, we went from sth to nth of East Idaho before skimming through the sth east corner of Montana to enter Yellowstone and finally into Wyoming.