Travel Observations - Day 2

My observations as we went from Salt Lake City to North Platte, Nebraska

• Forgot this one from yesterday: They are not joking about salt in Utah. We passed at least 2 enormous salt processing plants with gigantic piles of salt. And the salt flats are a very unusual sight for sure.
  
• I had forgotten that Salt Lake City had hosted the Olympics in 2002, at least until we got to Park City. From I-80 you can see the Olympic ski jumps, and underneath one overpass they had carved quite a few Olympic logos and icons into the walls.
• Based on the amount of billboards we saw, Little America must be the state's greatest tourist attraction. These billboards were about every 3-5 miles, and were going in both directions along I-80, the full length of Wyoming. When we passed it, there was a very small hotel/resort. But they did advertise a good restaurant and a playground. I was surprised to find out afterward that it was ONLY a hotel. And that there are 4 of them. Skip it.
• Wyoming also brought me my first interaction with "snow fences". You can read about something similar here (and see a picture of a wooden snow fence about halfway down), but the gist is that they are used to help keep the snow from blowing onto the freeway. They do look fairly cool on the side of the freeway.
  
• The state of Wyoming apparently really likes fireworks. We saw at least a half dozen billboards for fireworks wholesalers. There was a giant warehouse in the first town when we crossed in from Utah. Gotta love any place that likes blowing up small stuff.
  
• Wyoming is a very beautiful state. Extremely scenic, especially the rolling hills and grasslands. Not to be confused with the majority of Nebraska, which is corn fields.
  
• The state of Nebraska is apparently the home of Arbor Day. So said the sign when we entered the state anyway. Not entirely sure what to make of that.
  
• Apparently Applebee's 39 cent wing night is the place to be here in North Platte. The place was EXTREMELY packed, and was probably one of the best meals I've ever had at an Applebee's. As is typical with Applebee's, they had a whole bunch of local sports memorabilia, including two of their most famous Cornhuskers.

Tomorrow will bring us into eastern Iowa (Cedar Rapids), and then finally into Michigan the next day...