Ely, NM is a quiet, peaceful campground in north NM. It's cooler than Las Vegas but that's partly due to it's elevation. There wasn't much there to do or see.
Wendover, NM is only about 2 hours from Salt Lake City, Utah. (But still Nevada...so lots of Casinos and other sinful stuff).
The cool part of Wendover is that it's (practically) home to the Bonneville Salt Flats (yeah, Utah claims to be home...but I think Wendover has them beat.)
But if it's not speed week at Wendover - it turns into a quiet little town. (We couldn't arrange to be there when they were doing speed runs).
Salt Flats directly ahead
Salt Flats
You can go out on the flats - but it's at your own risk. We thought about taking Watson and Moriarty and seeing how fast we could go....but....decided not to.
Salt Lake City, Utah We actually stayed in Draper (just south of Salt Lake City). But you can definitely visit and see the Great Salt Lake. I didn't get any photos and we didn't visit long.
People have talked about swimming in Great Salt Lake. Some have. Apparently it's known for the salt reminding you of very single cut/scrape you have ever gotten. We decided NOT to swim.
But we did briefly visit....and the other thing Great Salt Lake is known for is it's black flies. We can attest to their presence - we stopped for a total of 15 minutes, tops. There were no flies to start...and we were fighting them before we left. They didn't seem to bite (which was good)...but they were everywhere.
Draper at least allowed us to get more civilization; we could easily shop and get supplies and wasn't as terribly as hot as Las Vegas. However we still were higher up than we liked (4500') and still wanted to head north. Next town is Glenn's Ferry, Idaho. It's lower and we're hoping it's cooler.
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