More Wale Watching 2013

We’ve been sightseeing and eating large for the past few days.  While at the barber, she told me of a delightful restaurant about 10 miles out of town, up Rt39 which is a steep winding trail between the mountains. The Oaks is a 100 year old hide away that treated us with great food and a lovely setting.  On this map, our campground is on Rt-15 at the upper left.  The Oaks is at A about 10 miles into unpopulated mountains.  The drive up is not for the faint hearted, very winding and steep narrow 2 lane.  Reward?  Wonderful scenery!  On leaving, we continued east to Rt-158 & 162 looping around some wonderful country.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  This photo was at the crest of the road (6500 feet) on our return trip, in the distance you can see The Great Salt Lake.  We are surrounded by bad weather to the north and west, very happy we made the decision to rest here a while.

We heard from Connecticut O.E.S. friends Marg & George Wales who were on route to California delivering their son’s car.  The have been posting their travel on Facebook and noted that they would be in salt Lake City this weekend.  We made phone contact and arranged to meet on Saturday evening for a casual dinner.

I have a Diners, Drive-ins and Dives ap on my i-phone which is a great help when looking for (often eclectic) spots to dine while on the road.  This time we were lead to The Blue Plate Diner, a very good choice.  Now Marg and George are old enough to remember Eisenhower, hard to believe that they had never had country fried Steak. Well, they have now!  This diner used sausage gravy to add to the joy, must not divulge this to my Cardio-guy!

The soda fountain is original from the ‘50’s.  So I’m told as I don’t remember back that far!