Drove another four hours from Moab to Salt Lake City. The mountains here are impressive! Different than the red rock mountains to the south. It feels like we’re in some kind of alpine village like Vail, Colorado or Switzerland.
After dropping the trailer we went to check out a place called Pretty Bird for dinner. A family from SLC that we met at Lone Rock recommended it. They only had one thing on the menu: a fried chicken sandwich with pickles, slaw, and a secret sauce. They had a couple sides: Mexican street corn salad (which is what I got) or crinkle cut fries. When you’ve only got one thing on the menu, you know it’s gotta be good! And it was. However, it was huge (Tump voice)! I could hardly get my mouth around it. The breading was really flavorful and the fusion of flavors with the sauce, pickles and slaw were excellent. The corn salad had some black eyed peas (I think) in it, which I wasn’t expecting. But, I liked that it was different. They didn’t have any seating (only a patio, but it was closed due to Covid 🫤). So we had to eat on a bus bench. The restaurant was located in downtown SLC and it was a ghost town at 8:00pm. There were several homeless people around, but the city was very clean.
Jimbo found an arcade that was only an 8 minute walk away, so we headed over there to check it out. They had mostly pinball machines and lots of modern games, but only a couple retro games (which is what we like). So we only hung out there for a little while then jumped back in the truck and headed over to a place called “A bar named Sue,” which is a cute play on the Johnny Cash song, “A boy named Sue.” (If you’ve never heard it, you should look it up! It’s one of my favorite Johnny Cash songs.) The place had a great vibe and great beer. I had a coffee cream ale that actually tasted like coffee (you can’t always trust the descriptions on some of these beers... they’ll sound amazing, but then they just taste like beer). We played a couple rounds of pool, tried to play ping-pong, and threw some darts, then called it a (fun) night!