Many times over the years, I have driven from Reno to Salt Lake City or beyond. Just after crossing the Nevada/Utah border, Interstate 80 traverses a thirty-ish mile section of the straightest and flattest road possibly in the entire world. In the salt flats over which the highway passes, many of the land-speed records of the past have been set and broken.
This vast expanse of salt covered earth and the Great Salt Lake to the east are what remain of the massive Lake Bonneville that covered this land many thousands of years ago. While this time of year, much of the land is covered by shallow rain waters the land will quickly dry and return to the barrier that scared many a settler from coming this way more than a century ago. I stand here looking over the vastness and can only think of the hell those that dared cross must have suffered through.
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