There isn’t much to this post, but I need to write it to finish the story. In the last post we had driven through Wyoming and eventually stopped in Utah to sleep awhile. I gave the sheep alfalfa and joined Dan in the cab to try and sleep for a few hours.

We were on the road by about 5:30.

We made it to this part of Utah about 7:45. I looked this up online.
“An abstract artistic sculpture called Metaphor: The Tree of Utah stands off the edge of I-80 on the barren Bonneville Salt Flats west of Salt Lake City. Swedish artist Karl Momen created the 87-foot high tree between 1982-1986. He financed the project himself to bring bold color and beauty to the stark, flat, salty landscape. The sculpture is made of 225 tons of cement, almost 2000 ceramic tiles, and five tons of welding rod, and tons of minerals and rocks native to Utah.” …

“The concrete trunk covered with tiles holds up six spheres coated with natural rock and minerals native to Utah…The sculpture is surrounded by a fence to protect people from falling tiles.”

I find the whole idea strange–that someone can decide to install something like this in the middle of what I assume is public land. I haven’t found the explanation. This article from Roadside America gives a different perspective about it.

We made it to Nevada around 8 a.m.

Interesting erosion patterns in the rock.

There seemed to be road construction almost the whole way to Colorado and back.

This was about 2 p.m. The Welcome to California sign was on the ground.

It was cloudy in the Sierras and it began to rain.

There is still snow lingering on the peaks.

This is the last photo I took on this trip. We made it home about 4 p.m. Good to be back.