6th day

A long drive from LV to Salt Lake City

I left 7 in the morning Las Vegas and arrived just with a pit stop at Salt Lake City  at noon after driving 450 miles. nobody can say that driving on US highways it slow. Even big trucks drive 80 miles per hour or the smaller but compared to a normal car still huge pickup trucks like Dodge Ram drive 90miles per hour.

The population of Salt Lake City is around 180000, a lot of them them being very friendly. I was walking on the empty streets of the downtown and saw only a few people, they were wearing white shirt with a black nameplate on it. The ladies unlike in Vegas were wearing long skirts and were socialising with newcomers to the city in a different way. Common with Las Vegas is that they immediatelly approach you, when stop moving or you get closer than 5metres to them.

Yes this is the capitol of the Mormons. As wikipedia defines Mormonism;

The Mormons are a religious and cultural group related to Mormonism, a religious movement beginning with the visions of Joseph Smith in upstate New York during the 1820s. After Smith's death in 1844 the Mormons followed Brigham Young to what would become the Utah Territory. Today a vast majority of Mormons are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) while a minority are members of other independent churches.

They are lucky because their boss is between us, the living prophet seems to be a  very good business man.

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The city is loaded with office buildings of the church and they follow a very agressive marketing as we all know. I went in to the visitor center and when I was just stopped moving for a minute a mormon stage allways tried to approach me. Their main temple is like a fortress with several chambers and secret conference rooms.

From USA2012

From USA2012

Tourists like me can not get access to the main church buildung but to a tent church, which is still impressive. It is the set what you see on some Tv chanels.

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Tomorrow I am going an other 500 miles north to the entrance of Yellowstone NP. Let s hope there wont be to much snow and roads will not be blocked.

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