After finding out that our brakes needed replacing, we headed back to another long stint at the local Les Schwab Tire place. This looks like a fairly new place but it was getting busy. We had no alternative. This time we left the pets in the motorhome. I brought my computer into the waiting area. They have a nice setup for just that purpose with plug ins and free wifi. We were there for several hours so I got some work done. Still, it isn't distraction free.
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It was cold out and when I walked over to Walmart to get a few cans of dog food to hold us over, I saw hoarfrost on the grass. Hoarfrost makes use of the moisture in the atmosphere to grow and interlock, making for a dramatic frost sculptures on anything solid even blades of grass.
Temperatures and dew point have to be below freezing, in order for the water vapor in the atmosphere to go straight from a gas to a solid, creating those white, interlocking patterns of frost. The crystals that form are as if someone sprayed water during extremely cold temperatures when no liquid could pool and freeze.
It was warm in the sun, but when there was shade, it was very cool. Winter is coming.
Before long, we were making our way north again, following the route we drove the previous day for a while. When we got near Provo, we were taking a bypass to the big city so we would not get into rush hour. We felt we could save some time that way, but I looked up in time to misdirect Kasey back on the freeway south. This particular highway has no exits for 15 miles! Arghhhh. We had to do a big circle. What a waste. Kasey was very gracious about my misdirection and took it in stride even though I felt we were in a time loop.
The salt flats of Utah are one long straight road and provide for some interesting backdrops.
We arrived at the Wendover Air Field Museum after it closed, but because it is a Harvest Host, we set up for the overnight stay. We ate our leftovers for dinner, played some cribbage, and turned in.
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