Day 7
We are on our way back to Oregon, retracing the highways that led us here, but everything is reversed. We arrived in Moab five days ago in the dark, today we left in the early morning. Clouds and cold winds accompanied us on our journey east, today we head back beneath calm blue skies and warmer temperatures. On our way north out of Moab a lone antelope sentinel standing in the sagebrush beneath a rocky canyon wall seemed to confirm the change.
We took a midday stop in Salt Lake, now free of snow flurries, for lunch. The mountains that surround the area were now visible to their peaks, fresh white from the snowstorm earlier in the week and dazzling against the blue sky. Our long awaited photo op at Temple Square was a bust as the Temple of the Latter Day Saints was encased in scaffolding. Still we found downtown Salt Lake another clean, vibrant, and inviting pedestrian friendly urban space that would be fun to explore some day.
Later in the afternoon we stopped at “The Middle of Nowhere” for some overpriced gas and to feed the llamas, goats and burros strategically fenced at the front of the store.
The long road between Twin Falls and Boise was quiet, the tumbleweeds now asleep in bushy piles along the fence and in the gulleys. But what did we see out in the sagebrush stretching out on the left to distant mountains? Antelope in several small herds. That and frequent sightings of hawks that had been absent on our previous pass were additional signs that things were changing, this Spring Break-Away was coming to its close.
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