It was a cold Sunday morning and I didn't hurry out of town. Because this was an extraordinary Best Western, the breakfast was also delicious with variety and no plastic. The girl at the desk told me the attached gift shop was soon to be an expanded lobby and a pizzeria with a chef "from New York," which is a great idea. Who wants to stop for the night and then have to seek out a place to eat?...not me, for sure. The unexpected positive experiences on trips balance the bad (...no room in the inn for you....sorry ma'am).
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| On the way to Ogden, Utah |
The drive to Ogden continued to be impressive and dramatic on a large scale with unsettled weather - some spitting rain, sunshine, clouds and dropping temperatures, which meant that there was a possibility of snow at the higher elevations as I approached Ogden. All the mountains around me had snow down to a certain level, but other than a few flurries, I was fine. I have no idea how this Dodge handles on ice and snow and just want to avoid having to find that out. I am pushing my goal of traveling where it is "50 degrees by noon." The nights have been below freezing, but then, I've been between 5,000 and 10,000 feet for several days.
I decided to work and found a hotel in downtown Ogden on Priceline. It was one of those old historic pricey hotels but with very few customers on this Sunday night, so the darling girl at the desk gave me a corner suite on the 6th floor. Nice.... and I had a delicious curried chicken salad for dinner downstairs.
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| Ogden from the Ben Lomond hotel |
There was a moment of consternation when the waiter / bartender didn't want to let a coffee cup out of his presence so I could finish it in my room. "We only have a limited number of these," he said. This was after I had to get another credit card from upstairs as they didn't take the one I had, and couldn't/wouldn't put it on my room. ("We're separate from the hotel.....") But this is the small stuff....
On the road today, I drove on by the turn off for the Golden Spike National Historic site, where tracks for the first transcontinental railroad from the east met and joined those from the west. Another missed attraction.....
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