This is a list of things you can do in the great state of Utah! we may or may not have done the things listed.
1. Fill up your gas tank in Nevada while you’re standing in Utah.
2. Take a picture with the Utah State Border Sign.
3. Proceed to drive/bike through 80 miles of desert.
4. Take a break because…why not?
5. Actually though, you need to wait for those cyclists you’re trailing.
6. Pick up some trash on the road.
7. Pick up some more trash because you’re just such a good Samaritan.
8. Wow there’s a lotta trash on this road.
9. Wonder why Utah is called the Beehive State.
10. Complain about the headwind slowing you down.
11. Complain about the mileage it is between towns on the 50.
12. Complain about the heat that’s making your life miserable.
13. And maybe heat stroke.
14. Realize that you’ve just changed time zones and lost an entire hour.
15. Admire the great salt lake (is it actually dry?)
16. Wait no, that’s Sevier Lake. And yes, it is dry.
17. Listen to the high-tension electric cables crackle.
18. Eat lunch (quinoa and PB&J. yum)
19. Lay down in the desert. Remember the sleeping pad.
20. Attempt to find shade in the desert.
21. Yeah, that’s not happening.
22. See the first town in 80 miles.
23. Scream at the cows due to your excitement.
24. Make sure no one is looking.
25. Whoa, the streets of this town are so wide!
26. It’s like a four-lane highway.
27. Sleep overnight in a high school.
28. Watch some fireworks.
29. Do your laundry.
30. Learn to use the washing machine.
31. Attend a demolition derby.
32. Take an ice bath in the girl’s locker room (we all know why not the boy’s).
33. Fall asleep, very tired.
34. Wake up to high school musical (@brad, brian)
35. Thank your host for the wonderful meal and hospitality.
36. Pack the car! Salt Lake City or bust.
37. Gaze off into the distance like you’re in a dramatic movie.
38. Appreciate the sheer amount of water that’s in Utah.
39. Leave Delta without actually seeing any of the rest of the town.
40. Leave highway 50. For good. Hello highway 6.
41. Swim in the Sevier River.
42. Actually, don’t it’s probably full of cow manure.
43. Look at Union Pacific Train roll past you.
44. Keep rolling across the countryside.
45. Enter Lynndyl.
46. How do you pronounce Lynndyl?
47. Fix a flat.
48. Turn right onto Utah state route 132.
49. Enter Leamington.
50. What a cute little town.
51. The mountains are gorgeous. Take pictures while biking.
52. Does that count as texting and driving?
53. We definitely never did that, never mind.
54. Struggle up a couple of hills.
55. Cross the county line into Juab County.
56. How do you pronounce Juab?
57. More miles of hills and forest.
58. Watch somebody else attempt a Strava King of the Mountain run.
59. Ask what’s a King of the Mountain run.
60. Struggle down a couple of hills. It’s that headwind.
61. Get rained on (well it’s rain in California).
62. Read a good book.
63. Enter Nephi.
64. How do you pronounce Nephi?
65. See Interstate 15.
66. Admire the fact there is a flat piece of asphalt running from here to Los Angeles.
67. Wonder why the clouds move so fast so that you’re never underneath the shade.
68. Look at the mountains.
69. Wish that you decided to go to Cedar City so that you could visit Zion.
70. Oh well, the Zion Credit Union will have to do.
71. Bike thirty more miles to Spanish Fork.
72. Nap.
73. Look at the Payson Utah Temple.
74. Appreciate the Provo basin.
75. Take an independent study class at BYU.
76. Drop out of BYU.
77. Enjoy an otter pop under the sun.
78. Realize otter pop is a brand name, not just a generic filter.
79. Look at things to do in Salt Lake City.
80. Maybe swim in Utah Lake?
81. No, don’t do that, there’s an algal bloom.
82. Maybe we’ll visit Provo at night?
83. Try fixing the bike.
84. Write a blog post.
85. Realize that 132 is way too many things to list, so just procrastinate and say you’ll finish it later.
86. Fall asleep writing the blog post.
87. Just go to bed, underneath the stars.
- Alex