Busy In Salt Lake City

After "roughing it" in Glacier, Yellowstone and Teton National Parks for the past 3 weeks, it was nice to be back in civilization!

We pulled into SLC on Tuesday afternoon and had a lot on our calendar. Grocery shopping, hair cuts, a/c service on the coach(Freon leak), road testing scooters and visiting friends.

Errands don't make for interesting entries, so let's move right to the fun stuff, visiting friends!

Cockatoo Street; Cari and Gregg

Snuggles favorite place to visit! We visited Cari and Gregg on Wednesday evening for dinner. The girls did sushi and guys (and birds) did pizza! As usual, Snuggles was completely freaked out by the noise and craziness of all the birds at the cockatoo house. Here is Snuggles sizing up a much bigger Louie, who was quite comical. Louie would take chopstick and toss them in the air and then laugh hysterically. Snug just quietly watched the whole scene.


Gregg is an accomplished, self taught guitarist. I've been itching to get a guitar and learn how to play. I spent some time picking his brain on guitars and what too look for. Gregg showed me his skill with 80's hair metal(which I grew up on, works for me!).

After my quick lesson and messing with a bunch of Gregg's guitars, I've decided on an electric guitar. With our limited space and not wanting to torture Laura as I learn, I decided on this Steinberger travel electric and a personal amp w/headphones. This way, I torture no one but myself during the learning process :)

So, my eBay search is on!

Jerry & Lyne

We met Jerry and Lyne a few weeks ago, up in West Yellowstone. They pulled into their site and three big labs immediately piled out of the door! I think if we were to have a dog, it would absolutely be a lab! We were over there quickly to meet the dogs and their owners!

It turns out they had enough of California and ditched it for a much quieter life in Layton, UT. They travel in the RV when they can. They love wine and had labs', we had a lot to talk about! They knew we were headed to SLC and suggested we look them up when we got to town.

We met up with them on Thursday evening. They BBQ'd steaks and fresh corn for us(yum) and we chatted over wine (lot's of it!) Of course, I had to roll around with dogs; Buddy, the chocolate lab (14 years old!), Jake and little Mookie both Yellow's, and brothers!




They also recently purchased a horse and Lynne invited Laura for a visit and ride on Friday morning. I was forced to stay back and wait at the coach for the mobile a/c guys to fix the Freon leak.

Karen & Rich

We met up with Karen & Rich on Friday evening. We met at a brew pub in downtown SLC. Karen is originally from Michigan and we've known her for quite a few years. She is slowly trying to recruit everyone she knows to SLC :) It almost worked on us, except for that little thing called a J-O-B!

We didn't take the camera to dinner. Here is a pic of Karen and Rich from 2004 when we met up with them in Paris to watch Lance capture his 6th Tour D' France!



Every time we visit SLC (3 times on the BIT) we always run out time before we run out of things to do and friends to visit! Good thing it's only 540 miles from Denver to SLC. There should be plenty of opportunities to visit, once we have a permanent base in Denver next year.

Today we make our way to Denver, taking 2 days to get there. We'll stop overnight in Rawlins, WY, for rest and diesel. Monday will be my first day of "work" as I go to an office for my first time. That should be an interesting experience :)

-Rich-