

Flanking the highway is a field of grey-white. Please excuse the reflection of my striped shirt.įor miles we weren’t sure what we were seeing. Bonneville Salt Flatsįrom the car window. We rented a car through Hotwire and were on our way.

If I had booked Detroit to Salt Lake City, it would have been an extra $80 and they made a stop in Denver anyway. So I booked my two flights: Detroit to Denver, Denver to Salt Lake City. I went to Frontier Airlines and Spirit Airlines (my go-to cheap flight provider) and typed in Detroit to Denver. I typed “cheap flights to Salt Lake City” and Frontier Airlines came up with $39 flights from Denver. This is a story about why you need to do some research if you’re trying to travel cheap. I decided to give myself an extra day so I could check out some stuff. Sometimes you have to make your own adventures. I needed to travel to northern Nevada and the best way to do so was to travel to Salt Lake City and drive. Watching it all is the Morton salt girl, painted 100 feet tall on the side of a factory silo. It saturates the water and settles on the ground.
