CDE Day 2 Las Vegas to Salt Lake City
The morning started off nicely with a relaxing breakfast then off to the airport to drop off Veronica my wife. Fast dash out of town found me and Martín looking over some promising desert we need to return to. North of Vegas to the Arizona strip has some great landscape and we will come back here before too long.
Speaking of cool desert stuff, we spotted a dirt road that led off to this cool structure. It was a nice chance to explain to Martín about the pre-GPS days. And that is you only clue to what it is other that the sign says "human life could be lost if this device is tampered with"....email us if you need more clues!
The drive up to Utah also held plenty of interesting site and my desire to return here for future Disabled Explorers events just kept growing. As I noticed the occasionaly odd dirt road leading up to a mountain saddle I knew that the difference between an "Overlander" and many 4wd folks is that instead of excitment at seeing a bumch of basketweave OHV trails to the horizon I was repeatedly enticed to leave the asphalt to follow that solitary track that might have been last traveled by a rumbling wagonload of mine ore 100 yrs before. It was the need to be alone and remote that drew me, not the desire to climb a hill or jump a ridge.
Before long we were in Salt Lake and had picked up my older son Nathan at the airport. This was great for me as I now have another driver (and a good one at that) so I can film and take notes. We made our way over to Tres Hombres and proved to be Tres "solo" Hombres as we ate alone. Oh well that is the downside of hitting town on a holiday weekend for a Meet & Greet. But I now have another reason to return, to meet all the great SLC folks.
With a quick look at the map we were off to Sunset Campground and were actually able to set up camp just after sunset. What more could we ask for? Oh yeah, our first drit road! Here is a picture of us stopped to air down.
And I got to use my super cool new Extreme Outback Onboard Air setup to dust off the camera, video & computer this evening. That is one of the reasons I wanted this system and just one of the many uses I will be using it for on this trip and years to come. You can tell it is solid and very well made. Be sure to talk with
Sierra Expeditions if you want a setup like this or have any onboard air questions.
Keep following our adventure on the SPOT share page and watch for more updates.
