We're finishing up a nice week here in Heber City, UT over the mountain from Salt Lake City and Park City. We are in one of our favorite parks, Mountain Valley with virtually no neighbors:-) This is a large park, all paved roads, large premium sites, all concrete at least 80' by 30', privacy hedges, and entire parts of the park are adult only, with views in every direction.
One of the first things we did when we got here was head over the mountain to go to one of our all time favorite Vietnamese restaurants, Oh Mai, a small place that has grown to 7 locations after being featured on Triple D, Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives. First banh mi's, we each got a different one and shared, a garlic rib eye and a pork belly.
They were awesome! Then on the way back we drove up to the top of Park City and dropped back down into Heber City. Beautiful views and fall foliage.
The next evening and night we were hit with major storms to include hail along with torrential rain. The next morning we woke up to this.
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| Hello winter |
We took a nice ride through some mountains north of Heber City.
Finished it up having coffee beside Strawberry Reservoir.
Then we quietly celebrated our 52nd Anniversary with a nice bourbon, Weller 12 and a special Crown Royal and I made shrimp and grits for dinner.
Then we just had to go back to Oh Mai, this time for pho, yummy on a cool day.
We ran some errands, Costco, grocery store, then wanted to drive back over the mountain through Sundance on Hwy 92, a narrow 1 1/2 lane, windy, pretty drive. And it was, although there was more traffic than we expected, and surprising, at least to us, our experience had been that 95% of the traffic goes west to east, so it flows really well around the hundreds of very tight corners, well this day it seemed we were in the minority going that direction, making it not quite as enjoyable as usual, somehow dodging cars in the middle of blind curves just wasn't wonderful:-)
As we climbed up above Salt Lake City to start our route and then started down, we got to talking about a place we had been to many, many years ago with, in our memory amazing french fries, but we couldn't remember its name.
Then as we drove through a busy congested area we both looked over and saw Cubby's, and asked each other, "Was that the place?" Jan looked it up quick and confirmed it so, of course, we had to turn around and get an order of fries, and yes, they are still delicious!
The views were great, especially with coating of snow here and there.
We stopped for coffee on the way back at Deer Creek Reservoir, pretty low.
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| Try to ignore our filthy window:-) |
One more day here, more errands, flu shots, then on to Colorado tomorrow. This was our morning surprise.
