Utah, Canyons, Trains, Mormons, and Nachos??

   Welcome to Utah! I am continuing my taste buds adventure in one of the more beautiful states that we saw on our trip. We spent 5 long, humid, and windy days here. By exploring the Flaming Gorge pictured to the right, Salt Lake City, and The Golden Spike i go to see just how beautiful this place really is. This was the last week of the trip too, we had already driven through 25 states! Needless to say although we wanted to explore and see all these areas, we were also very tired and wanted to head back home soon! Our first trip into Utah was when we were staying in Wyoming actually. We drove into the state to see the Dinosaur National Park, driving through the Flaming Gorge on our way there. It was a beautiful site! Huge canyons full of different vibrant colors, even bigger fields of grasses and hills as far as you could see. We even saw a lot of the local wildlife there, including a badger that was poking his head out from the bushes as we drove by!
    Continuing on our adventure during the week, we officially moved into the state and camped in a small RV park just south of Salt Lake City. This was where we based our last full week of our trip as we began our last phase of exploring. The Day we left to go see the Golden Spike (pictured below) we stopped inside the city to see the Mormon Temple Square. This area was dedicated to those of the Mormon faith and though you couldnt actually go into the temple itself (you had to be an actual Mormon to do so) they were kind enough to let all of us tourists walk around their campus. I will say this, the Mormon people are very nice people!
     So there you go, a little look into the state that we went to. Now i want you to understand something; the whole last few weeks of the trip we had been eating the same kinds of food whenever we went out to eat. The states that we had been in before; South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa all have great food dont get me wrong, we were just in the mood for something back home, something different. As we drove along the highway towards Salt Lake City we drove into the little town of Provo and just happened to find ourselves in a little suburban community full of shops, parking lot malls, and wouldnt you know it one tiny little Hawaiian barbeque grill restaurant! There was just no question about it, we decided to eat there.                

 

   This place had it all! It was formatted so that you went up to a kitchen line and picked a dish with two sides to it, pretty much like Panda Express style. The foods there though were rich in smell and just looked appetizing. After several minutes of debating what to get i finally settled with bbq pork nachos. They came by themselves and were a somewhat unique thing to get at a hawaiian place, but i was assured they were quite delicious. As they handed me the plate of food over the counter i couldnt help but notice just how much food they gave me. As you can see in the picture below they gave me A TON of food! Yep that huge plate was just for me, and i knew right from the beginning that i could never eat it all haha, despite how much of an expert i was at eating nachos. What you see on this plate include a huge variety of things to eat like pork, tomatoes, cheese, and bits of other vegetables like onions and bell peppers. The workers there were true to their word, it was simply delicious.

    I just loved this plate of food. What was unique about the chips themselves was that they werent actually "chips." They were wontons (basically rice flour) that were fried to make the form of nacho chips. Either way i didnt notice that they weren't chips until my mom pointed it out. They were quite good! This little Hawaiian bbq place was definitely the jewel in the sand of dozens of local and chain restaurants up and down the street. I had a blast just exploring the state of Utah itself and one of the highlights of the trip was this order of nachos Utah did have awesome places to see, but this meal that we had for lunch was a great moment of its own. Thanks for reading, till next time!