good morning everybody today's mission is a big one to get into the big city of
Salt Lake City anyways I'm I'm all set up here at my camp spot at this KOA
it's a $54 a night for full hookups with tax that comes to I think it was like a
hundred and twenty six dollars for two nights here but Jax hanging out hey full
hookups you know so 30 amp unlimited water I've got the gray tank wide open
and then I'll just pull the valve on the black tank before I go I already got the
bike ready to go here I've got the awning out because it's impossible
sprinkling rain possibly but I'm gonna wear my coat on the bike to explore yeah
this is my first ever KOA Campground they are incredibly expensive they are
very accommodating I want to show you around real quick tour of this place
before we get on the bike I mean some of the people that pay into the KOA
membership and stuff they live like kings out here but I mean the cost is
the thing I dunno I only want to do this once a week so I may go all out once a
week other than that I don't want to be crammed in like that for no reason they
give you a little key code for the gate so you can come down here behind the
campground look at the Jordan River right here in Salt Lake City that's
pretty cool pretty nice nice they got a really nice game room and a laundry
facility like state-of-the-art laundry facilities I've never seen anything like
it don't eat any of that and I don't mean
to I'm not mocking anybody that gets into this I mean this is this is what
fuels RV life these days are these big huge resorts and you know as long as
they can pack you in as tightly as possible and get as much money from you
and then offer all of this extra stuff I mean
that's that's what's putting people behind the wheel of an RV I understand
that but we all have a different idea of what is fun and enjoyable in an RV and
this is just a legal spot for me to park basically yes so that's it I don't
really care about anything else I would be perfectly happy just parking in a
no-parking lot instead but it's not legal here in Salt Lake City so hop on
the bike lesson fun today
hey definitely a lot less snow here in Salt Lake City than when I was here
three months ago a lot less snow so that's a good thing but hasn't warmed up
yet quite I'm gonna be hanging out here in central downtown Salt Lake City for
the most part today looking around for quirky stuff and we found it this is the
Gilgal Gardens here downtown oh that my words were now written
oh that they were printed in a book job 19 definitely a strange little garden
not everything has a title but I think this is some kind of a religious park
dirty can walk under this little rock archway here yeah I'm definitely leaning
towards a religious park of some sort all right who's this guy actually that
kind of looks like Christopher Walken doesn't it a little bit they printed
something in the tile but yes I can't read it
I don't know yep more Bible verses so Utah I think is more well-known for
Mormons as far as religion I think I believe yes Utah
big Mormon state not everybody who lives here is a Mormon but you know and just
random feet and arms and heads okay cool we are gonna go ahead and keep Utah
quirky while we're here yeah I think so they are doing construction some
construction here by the park and today I got a good set up I got my mobile
vlogging going on with the TW 200 no backpack today everything I have fits in
the tank bag this entire vlog is gonna be filmed on my GoPro so we'll make it
work get back on the bike and go look at some
more downtown starting to a sprinkle and rain a little bit check out this place
it's a it's a house they've got some spectacular
artwork
that's pretty cool I'll bet this is a pretty pretty cool place in October I
mean that's a huge mural I'm trying to stand back as far as I can that's
amazing Wow one other thing about the bike is like in the RV you see something
cool like this there's nowhere you can go in the bike I can just Park it on the
sidewalk for 60 seconds real quick and basically not get in trouble to give you
an idea that is Lincoln Highway right there and we've got some interesting
artwork across the street I do remember last time I was here coming off a
Lincoln Highway I do remember seeing this pyramid structure it's you can't
really miss it if you're in the right lane right there what is it
let's find out the gate says some um some um
okay so remember how I said Mormon is not the only religion in Utah apparently
this is home of the religion mummification that's right this is one
of their headquarters where they have services I don't know anything about
mummification except from like mummy movies and stuff like that but
apparently it's big enough to have an entire religion about mummies and so
this twenty six foot tall metal pyramid structure is the welcoming point for the
mummy religion some that's new to me I heard of Mormons I've never heard of The
Mummy religion okay now I was looking for a good place to eat here in Salt
Lake City well on the bike and I really appreciate the effort of this restaurant
because quirky works a lot of the time if you put a ginormous sculpted iguana
outside your restaurant I mean it really improves the chances that people are
gonna want to come in and eat besides I've never tried iguana let me know what
it tastes like so lets me go secure up the bike and
then i'll grab some lunch so we'll lock the steering and I will
put my caliper lock on the front wheel there
unstrap the tank bag take that in with me as well as the helmet we'll have
lunch
oh my goodness look at those burritos whoo
I may need to find that or be thrown after all when I get back
that was scrumptious and the sunshine is starting to peak through with some
little clouds here and there them should be a nice day
it's a eating alone doesn't bother me being alone doesn't bother me so when
people look at that and they're like how can you go to a restaurant by yourself
or like the other day I had a walmart receipt lady you know that checks the
receipt with the highlighter to make sure you paid for everything she said
she said well he I don't know how we got onto this but she asked me where my
girlfriend was and then we started talking and then she said so where's
your wife I'm like you we already covered this okay and then she goes in
and she was like why would you travel alone why would you get married why
would you buy a house in a car and do all this maybe I'm not the abnormal
maybe you're the unnormal one I don't know I'm here at the convention center
it says paid parking I can't find any signs anywhere that tell me anything
about how to pay the speaking of signs what literally more signs here than I've
ever seen nothing about parking what the heck okay these are really random tomato
or tomahto oil and water step or stop yeah I'm
gonna go try to find some free parking and go over to the Capitol building no
signs about parking just randomness very pretty cool Utah thank you for keeping
it quirky all right everybody mark off another
United States State Capitol here in Utah in Salt Lake City
there's the capital building and this I assure you is definitely a first look
how close I am parking to the capital free parking at the state capital yeah
no limitations there's no hours I think you could even park an RV right here in
front of the Capitol and they wouldn't care no there is actually a city
ordinance banning overnight RVs and in the city take my tank bag in with me but
I'm not gonna take the helmet in I usually do take it with me but if I
don't know how much walking there is involved so I'm utilizing the lock on my
bike to lock the helmet to the bike it's not gonna go anywhere yeah let's go
check out the Capitol I know I know you've seen one Capitol building you've
seen them all but I'm happy the sun's making a short little appearance here
that's cool feel like I'm rocky going up these steps
no that's in Pennsylvania that's possibly still Tacoma on Lincoln Highway
oh I got a lot of marble in this State Capitol Wow there's something cool up on
the fourth floor we're gonna go check out ain't got no time to walk so take
this fancy elevator oh yeah and she's coming down
Wow okay not as fancy as I was hoping for
but looks cool from the outside some of these capitals I don't know how much it
costs to to build these capital buildings but the amount of marble
that's inside and everything it's remarkable it's insane all right
here we are on the top floor they're doing a wedding down there today
actually all right if you're into that sort of thing how about this mr. Philo
Farnsworth the inventor television that's right now I know YouTube is kind
of taken over over-the-air free television but this is historic and Han
right here the inventor of television in 1927 in San Francisco California after
having invented and developed numerous varieties of vacuum tubes such as the
image 2 sector which the statue is holding he was able to transmit and
receive a recognizable image in 1934 after demonstrating that his ideas of
electronic image transmission were the first to be written down he was issued
patents regarding television methods that are still used in every television
receiving set all right that'll do it for my Utah exploring for the day look
at these mountains off in the distance though that's cool I do want to get back
to the RV while I had the chance to full hookups to take care of a few things
clean up a few things and spend some time outside with Jax and relax do so
it's not like city's been nice the home of dr. Eric Smith who fixed my smile for
YouTube thank you so much Eric I really appreciate your help here in Salt Lake
City give me my smile back but
yep all right I can see the bike still there it's good hey buddy you know you
got some on your nose yeah yeah that food leftovers oh okay
thanks for not chewing that cord that have been bad yeah geez it's 72 degrees
that's pretty warm like a week ago it was five degrees at night this is what a
crazy change I tell you my time I get to the east coast it'll hit triple digits
and then we'll get back there averaging out 70 for a high for the year but right
now we're just all over the board it's crazy my back is soaking wet it was
sweat that jacket was killing me at the red lights and I got the air conditioner
on inside yeah yeah I love it this is awesome I'm catching up on the
Mariners right now don't know if I've mentioned that in previous years but I
subscribe to follow one team on MLB and so I get to watch all of the games live
when I'm out of market which is basically not right now for some reason
Salt Lake City I'm still in the Seattle Mariners market even though I've already
passed the Giants and and Oakland and everything I know but the same thing
happened what two years ago when I was going across and I kinda remember I was
in Bismarck North Dakota but I was still in the Seattle Mariners market three
four states away I mean I was like how far do I got to go it's no biggie
currently right now I'm just watching on a one-day delay all of the games and I
don't even sit there and watch it guys I just I have it going and I multitask
sometimes I'll just mute it and edit video or something but it's fun to
follow the Mariners they look they look good this year they finally look good by
the way the quality is just fine for me on this TV this is a 720p
TV it's not even 1080p I think it works really well for this I'm actually
running it through my ps4 so that's how I control and watch the game I can also
stream from my smartphone but I have noticed that the quality is is much
worse on the smartphone so this works anyways this will be my last night in
Salt Lake City as a matter of fact this is my last time in a big city until like
Laramie or Cheyenne Wyoming and it is pretty much a dead zone from here on out
so it's gonna be an interesting journey through a lot of dead zones and a lot of
Lincoln Highway history from here so anyways guys have a great night Jax now
see you on the road from the Lincoln Highway in two days I guess