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down in utah the guys and i dig a city called salt lake



i find myself in salt lake city, utah at the moment, but well get to that shortly. yesterday ken and i went out aboot downtown denver, which was fun - its not a large city, and nothing in particular stands out, but i liked it. i liked boulder better, which is where kenny works, and where the university is. it looks like a great place to go to school. anyway, after denver we went out to golden to see the coors brewery. i wish it was the miller brewery, but it was still a lot of fun. you get a wristband for three free drinks at the end, and since ken doesnt drink i was able to have five (he had one coors non-alcoholic). i got a little buzz and got to try one of my new favorite beers - blue moon. its an orange flavored hefe-weisen. my second favorite beer (after miller lite of course) was always the john harvards hefe-weisen, but its been off their menu for a good year now, so i think ill call that my 'historical second favorite' and move blue moon into the current second favorite. cuz its important. anyway, after coors, we went to see buffalo bills gravesite on top of lookout mountain.

i left denver this morning and drove aboot 350 miles through southern wyoming. what an unusual place. the terrain is beautiful and quite varied. but the highway is a lot of up and down mountain stuff, which my cruise control kept getting upset aboot. when i got hungry for lunch i had to wait an extra eighty miles or so before i saw a mcdonalds sign. and it was on a dirt road. a long time ago, a friend and i had the crazy idea that living there would be a good idea. i wonder what people do there.

once i got to this shitty quality (by what standards?) inn, i went to the actual city of salt lake, which is just east of where im staying. its remarkably clean and very pretty. it has large towers, not quite skyscrapers, but everything is pretty wide and open, so everywhere you look you can see the surrounding mountains, which are very impressive. its just too bad the city is founded by and filled with crazy people. a lot of markings on buildings and stuff say 'lds' - latter day saints = mormons. but i really wonder how much of the city and area is mormon, and how the culture as a whole is affected by it. i dont know how to find that out though.

tomorrow i go to the lake itself and an island inside it. ill tell you all how that goes.