We took a 4 hour tour of Salt Lake City today. We were most interested to see Mormon Square but that was not included in the tour. Tour guides are not allowed in Mormon Square because they have their own volunteers on the property. While the tour was having lunch in one of the Mormon restaurants, we went and took photos in the square. Pretty impressive gardens and buildings. There are a lot of flowers planted in Salt Lake which is in itself impressive because thi...

On the drive south to Salt Lake City, maybe 15-20 minutes outside Idaho Falls, the roadside topography suddenly changed. There were what looked like large black cinder blocks. They were aligned in such a way that made you think there was an earthquake that jostled them and knocked them out of position. In some areas, one of them right next to the highway, it looked like a large sinkhole, big enough to swallow 2 or 3 trucks. Turns out that it's lava formations! Th...