A Blog Along The Lincoln Highway

We stop briefly in Evanston to see the restored train station and a little Lincoln Highway marker memorial along the main drag through town. One of the information panels lets us know that the only original concrete Lincoln Highway marker in Wyoming is just east of Lyman, about 65 miles east of here. Yep. Following [...]

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Watch video of the less romantic side of travel on gravel.

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At the start of Day 8, we’re in Park City Utah in the nicest rooms we’ve had so far on the trip. And I’m thinking about The Odyssey. Wasn’t there an island that seemed a paradise to Ulysses’ men? And they didn’t want to leave? Same thing here. Bob and Jarrett are totally taken with [...]

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We wiggle into Salt Lake City following Butko’s directions on how to follow the old route. Salt Lake City from the old Lincoln Highway, or at least from the version we’re following, is not a very exciting or good looking city. Bob was expecting something more exotic, I think. He’s a fan of the HBO [...]

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After Magna, we have several options, and I think we should check out Saltair. It’s a fabled old resort on the southern shore of the Great Salt Lake, and Butko mentions it in the book as a popular stop for many early travelers along the Lincoln Highway, although it’s about a mile off the actual [...]

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So, with salt air in our lungs, we turn west again. Actually, the road from here gets really interesting. Travelers along the Lincoln Highway have some choices to make at this point. Take the straight and easy course on I-80 across the Great Salt Lake Desert to Wendover, or follow the original route to the [...]

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So, west of the Great Salt Lake, west of Saltair and Tooele, there is the Great Salt Lake Desert. Much of it was the bottom of a gigantic prehistoric lake that stretched over some 20,000 square miles about 18,000 years ago. We now call that dried up old body of water Lake Bonneville. Or the [...]

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When you arrive at the western end of the Great Salt Lake, you’re in Wendover, Utah, and then almost immediately, you’re in West Wendover, Nevada, and it’s an hour earlier. Yes, the time change! Such a sweet sensation for us travelers heading westward. All these travel days are so full of new sights with sounds [...]

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We see a billboard for a Ramada Inn in Ely, and since it is dark already, I call ahead on my cell phone and try to get rooms. The woman at the Ramada says she has rooms available, but they are on the second floor of the “annex” and we’ll have to carry our bags [...]

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The next morning, we all meet in the Jailhouse hallway and walk over to the Hotel Nevada for breakfast. The special steak and eggs for me. Cheap. Blueberry pancakes for Bob. Jarrett gets his usual: raisin bran. “Actually I’ll have two orders of raisin bran,” says Jarrett. “You want four little boxes?” says the spry [...]

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