Welcome to Re-Discovering Salt Lake City. A little journal of transitioning to life in this city after moving here from the Midwest in June of 2015, and all the things we find along the way. In full disclosure, I have lived here before in past, but it has been 15 years, so I feel like we are re-discovering all things Salt Lake City again for the first time. I hope to share the great things we find here: recreation, food, great deals, culture, and the interesting things you notice on a day-to-day basis.
Background? My family and I recently moved from Iowa, the state that gets confused with Idaho and Ohio, to the western mountain state of Utah. Not much gets confused with Utah. I lived in Iowa for 11 years and Wisconsin for 4 years prior to that. So a lot of time was spent in the last decade-and-a-half living in the Midwestern lifelstyle. The last 11 years in Iowa was a formidable time, with so many life memories, and essentially my entire time as a 30-something adult. My wife and I met while in Iowa, and our kiddo was born there as well, so there is a lot of memories from living there.
This is the first time I have made a major move like this in about 15 years. The last time I moved that far was moving from Utah to Wiscinsin. Basically the same thing in reverse. In full disclosure, I have lived in Utah twice before, once as a wee tot, age 1 to 5, and again from age 18 to 25 as a college student, loving the vistas and the occasional trip to go snowboarding. But I was basically living in the books outside of that, and I was very low on spending money, so I didn't experience regular life as an adult and didn't get to experience much for recreation, dining and culture.
In the last 15 years since I have been absent from Utah, I would same that some things about Utah have stayed the same, and some things have changed. Changed indeed. (there are things about me that have stayed the same, and some things that have changed as well). I have been finding myself saying to my wife and others "Wow, this sure is the same, and whoa, that has changed!". There are so many things, that I have felt the urge to jot them down, and why not use the wonderful world of Blogger to chronicle my "Re-discoveries"? It has been fun to "Re-discover" all things Utah. So follow along if you wish to see our likes, discoveries, great deals (we are frugal folks) and maybe a couple of complaints of what we find along the way.
The first like? Mountains. Green, rocky, majestic mountains. They are like a picture frame around everything else you see on the landscape here. Not as green as an Iowa corn field in July, but still amazing! This is one of the first cell phone pics of the mountains as we arrived in Utah earlier in the summer of 2015!
The other nice thing about the mountains is the waterfalls. We took a ride up a canyon while visiting family in Sanpete County, and saw this great waterfall. There were some mosquitoes around the falls, which was surprising because we were at about 8000 feet elevation, but I learned something that day. Where there is water, there are mosquitoes. It's a universal truth, weather you are in Utah or Iowa!
That's all for now, more to come!
Back in the 801 y'all!!!
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