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Cheyenne Frontier Days
2012
Mesquite to Heber City
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Mesquite to Heber City (356 miles)
Our planned time of arrival was 9 a.m., but since everyone was ready we left at 8:30. The weather changed rapidly, the temperature dropping by 20 degrees and the sky blackening with clouds. We made a quick stop near Bryan Head and Joe Priebe re-thought putting his top down as he looked at the dark sky. We took the 15 to the 70E in Richfield, UT and then hit major road work (something we would see through the whole trip.) As the road narrowed to a single lane we ended up behind large trucks, with loose gravel, heavy rain and lots of lightning.
Our lunch stop was in Salina, UT, at Mom's Cafe. We had great service and lots of food. They sat us together in a separate area. Doug and Marilyn had arranged for such good treatment and we presented the owner with a COTV t-shirt as a thank-you and took group pictures with him and the traveling COTV banner.
We then headed out on US 28, where we experienced a torrential downpour, black skies and slow going on one lane due to construction. This route took us through Provo and the Brigham Young University campus. Then the road from Provo to Heber City followed along a river with many rafters and alongside the road, the Utah version of Bridal Veil Falls. The lightning got even more dramatic and we marveled at all the stupid fools on the lake in their boats and on their personal watercraft. As we got to the Holiday Inn Express, where we met up with Don and Bev Weeks, the sky opened up so that it was hard to get bags out of the cars.
It cleared up in time for dinner at the Snake Creek Inn. The 20 of us sat at 3 tables and tried a wide variety off the menu. The food was great, the service wonderful and the desserts huge. We had good wine, and lots of laughs and presented a model corvette to the hostess who would pass it on to the owner/chef who was not in the kitchen that night.
