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U.S.A. 03: THE MIDWEST AND ITS WONDERFUL PARKS
Chicago, Salt Lake City, Laramie, Cheyenne, Deadwood, Sperafish, Sturgis, Deadwood, Cody, Yellowstone
  
U.S.A. 03: THE MIDWEST AND ITS WONDERFUL PARKS
Trip organized by U.S. tour operators. Bus, bungalows and young people from around the world. Visited many places and famous national parks in the world.
TRAVEL
Arrived at the airport at Ronchi (why still call it "the Trieste ..."?) At 05.30 and get the bad news that the flight to Milan-Malpensa has been canceled ... After exhausting research to "protect" diverting to other hubs in Europe, and their reflections, the hostess of land gentilissimo decide to transfer me and an American (with my same problem) to Venice on board a taxi that reached the destination and spearhead a 180 k / h on the highway. Right time to do the check-in ... and I find the aircraft that will take me to Malpensa. Here at least the flight to Chicago I found. It matches with about ½ hour late (recovered completely during the flight). In Chicago I have to get the tourist visa, withdraw, clear and deliver the luggage, making the new check-in for Salt Lake City in less than two hours. As soon as the plane landed on U.S. territory has come down the universal deluge ... a real storm that blocked the airport delay of about three hours the flight that will take me to the destination. To hear or read the experiences of Italian people who have crossed the customs after September 11 it seemed that the arrival in the States was a painful, long and stressful bureaucratic process: instead, skipping the line to the 'entrance of the state ", and identify question, do me the photo, digitally me take my fingerprints, collect your luggage and clearance (by way of saying) and it back to the TSA staff for the new board .... less than 20 minutes! I was more time in 2000 and is without any rigmarole. However the time to change terminal, a pseudo half underground, make the check-in, move the controls of the TSA and I find myself in front of the gate where I look calm on board. Other three-hour flight and here I am in Salt Lake City where 20.30 to find the bag. I made sure to arrive in this city in the mid afternoon and are expected here to the shuttle's own dusk. According to airport staff had to move the shuttle every half hour and instead ... I was waiting for spazientirmi when my eye was struck by a blonde girl (with rucksack and sleeping bag) ... Had now passed all of the shuttles outside the hotel and there was only me and her. I asked her what hotel she was direct and, to my great surprise, replied that the destination was the same and that the shuttle would be past before another ½ hours ... At this point my question was as spontaneous and spontaneous obvious was his reply: "Are you with Suntrek ?"... "It !!!"... So I met Kirsten, a girl of twenty-four years, New Zealand and with an incomprehensible English. Just arrived at the hotel we went immediately to bed: you the same after 40 hours of travel.
First day
I woke up early, the time zone you hear ... For fear of not getting up in time for the meeting with my fellow travelers took me two alarm clocks for the hours 07.00 to 06.00 I was already with his eyes open as few. The difference with Italy is eight hours and were therefore 14.00. Having a good breakfast I was bypassed in the streets around the hotel to see more 'of SLC. The houses in the area were higher than two floors but in the downtown saw the tops of skyscrapers. The city is "spread" on a great plain, and behind him there are the mountains immediately to the snowy peaks. The meeting is at 10:00 in the lobby and with great surprise I discover (along with my companions arrived in the meantime) that the group consists of only four people, plus trek leader! The New Zealand girl (Kirsten) and two in Germany: Bettina on twenty-five years and Cornell (over 50). Lukas, a pretty boy of about 30 years there will be a driver and guide. Being so few, for a "suntrek" means to feed and wash the dishes one day and one not. If we were in 12, as the last time ... would happen once a week. However we have so much space available in the van. Today will be a stage of transfer and therefore spend much of our time on the road. We stopped for lunch, just came in Wyoming, in a village which I think I have seen only in films, on the other hand, the cafeteria was placed perfectly into the surrounding environment. A good hamburger with fries and a Pepsi for just $ 7.50: meat sublime ... and feeling the taste back in time during my two previous trips in the States. See all those cows and all the steers and calves grazing in the wild day and night is the answer to the question of why the meat here is much more of our good. Our destination today is Laramie (not to be confused with its homonym find that below), a town located between Cheyenne and the state of Colorado. Before arriving at our campsite we buying to fill our cambusa and then immediately put me at the stove to prepare a good "carbonara" literally wiped from everyone. I must say that the night is cold: I do not have to forget that here, even if we are on a huge plateau 2,000 meters above sea level 390 miles for about seven hours of travel.
Second day
At 09.00, after a hearty breakfast, we put back on the road to Colorado where our next destination: the "Rocky Mountain National Park." I tried to contact my brother and with the public phones that with the phone but ... nothing ... even if the roaming was working. Oddly, the SMS service works well for opto messaggino. After about three hours of travel we are in Ester Park the resort at the entrance to the park where we will spend the night camping in bungalows. Right time for a light meal at the bag and we are facing some short and easy path between these beautiful mountains. There are many animals that we encounter: squirrel, the prairie dogs, elk, deer and ibex. The mountains are similar to the Alps (that is training young people) but the vegetation is completely different: the pines are also found more than 3,000 meters above sea level We have also made a brief tour with the van adventures narrow gorges and broad valleys crossed by rivers filled with water to thaw. We are accustomed to a water course that runs through the valley can be almost directly. Here the water digs a path that resembles a snake creating several loops which touch the two sides of the valley and giving more suggestion to the surrounding environment. The time is Nuvoloni failure and full of rain is approaching, so we decide to reach the campsite. Fortunately, no rain and so the girls were German they cooked a delicious dish made of chicken, vegetables and rice (stracotto without seasoning). In after dinner we lit a bonfire (which is almost an institution), and so warm, we started to talk and write the first postcard. 180 miles for about three hours of travel.
Third day
During the morning (rather freddina) we went shopping in Ester Park and around 10.30, when the day was warmer, we were again dispatched to the park and board the bus we had a nice tour focusing occasionally to enjoy the view or close encounter with some animal. After a fast and frugal lunch on the banks of a river (which lacked only the appearance of an old pioneer and an old Indian), we are divided again on the roads of the Rocky Mountains that have brought us, with no small surprise, all ' height of about 4,000 meters above sea level where the snow was still in control: a fantastic experience shared with dozens of people. In the end, to 15.00 we are divided into Cheyenne (capital of Wyoming), where we arrived at the "Grand Hotel Plaza - Sleeper's Inn" where GHP only the name but not style. The classic inn where I found that cleaning is not at home. For dinner we decided to go on foot, in a place where you could taste in any way's up and where I tasted a Cajun dish. To finish, we spent the evening in two quite nice in the company of beer. It has raised a loud and annoying wind: luckily the hotel is nearby. 140 miles for about four hours of travel.
Fourth day
Spent the morning in the city (35,000 inhabitants) and capital of Wyoming. Visited the Capitol Building and the city museum. I first really got into the interior all original solid wood dell'800: here I had the pleasure of meeting a policeman and a picture with him was a must. The museum displays everything that concerns the history of the city, region and state from prehistory to the present day. Also visited the railway station built in the 19th century soon after the arrival of the "Union Pacific". Then starting with the first stage "Fort Laramie National Historic Site: The famous outpost of the army that protected the pioneers direct to the west along the 'Oregon Trail." This is not a fortified place as we are accustomed to seeing in films but a village where more than to be the barracks there is a saloon, a store and several homes. From this place have passed almost all the main characters that made the legendary old west. " Here I had the opportunity to drink the beverage of choice "blue jackets". The "ginger beer" means a gazzosa very spicy and hot, that many times he went to replace the beer. We resumed our way northward along the border with Nebraska and South Dakota in entering the area of "Black Hills National Forest" where even last night for us two bungalows for the night. After a quick sandwich and a beer to share a feast around the fire with "marshmellow" in perfect American style. The marshmellows are a type of very sweet pastries: remember what Charlie Brown and Snoopy cooked on top of a long and stick around a bonfire? 290 miles for about eight hours of travel.
Fifth day
It has rained all night and continued during the morning ... Advantage of the restaurant of the camp to have breakfast with pancakes and maple syrup, all watered with coffee and orange juice. We arrive at the "Crazy Horse Memorial" and in danger of not seeing the huge face carved into the rock, the famous Indian chief by the very low clouds. Right time to see a short movie about the construction of this enduring monument to the sky opens and it appears before our eyes this mammoth work that brought about by the "Lakota Sioux" and began in the late 40's, it is not known yet when it will end. A precise and surgical work of dynamite which, for now, allows you to see the face of American Indian and part of his right arm. Advantage of this opportunity to visit the 'Indian Museum & Cultural Center "where I know a real Indian chief, and Medicine Man and Sundance called Chef Ehanamani. Chatting with him I come to know who has visited most of Europe and Italy to promote his books about the Lakota culture and was even in Aviano and Pordenone. Kindly me autographed the book that I bought from him. Seen this place unfinished (not funded by the government to the will of the Lakota), I realized that if the work remains unfinished thousands of dollars and still arrive every day. It has stopped raining and so, after a few miles further north, we arrive at the "Mount Rushmore National Memorial, where the 18-meter high faces of Presidents G. Washington, T. Jefferson, A. Lincoln and T. Roosevelt, carved into a granite wall of the "Black Hills" is one of the most famous images of the USA. Even here there was a huge job by the team headed by the sculptor G. Borglum that with pneumatic drills and explosives in 14 years created what the U.S. is one of the places, if not the most patriotic of the country. If anyone would propose something similar in Italy, would surely against all the natural associations and others. Advantage of the afternoon to visit the most beautiful of the "Black Hills" and "Custer State Park." The "Black Hills", so called for their dark color, covering a vast area of the area south west of South Dakota. The road, which winds up at the pines, we offer many views of pinnacles and rocks. Area sacred to the Lakota, after the discovery of gold occurred in the mid-nineteenth century, became the land where the natives driven out, the law was the one of the strongest. In fact, in the city (villages, more than others) as Deadwood, and Sturgis Sperafish, reigned alcohol and gambling infime that made these legendary lands, but many people. The "Custer State Park" (not center anything with General Custer) with its constant change of vegetation is one of the largest herds of bison in the wild in the world. Luck was on our and, while remaining in the van, we had the opportunity to see a large number of these animals, although the leader of the pack we watched from afar with an air of challenge. Here we return to the meadow and the hills are so sweet, giving the opportunity to 200 types of birds to moose, a white-tailed deer, for antilocapre etc.. to live among the areas most pristine wilderness and the USA. Of course like any other population, there is the possibility of swimming, fishing, boating, and climbing the rocky peaks, or take long walks. Returned to the campsite in the evening eat good tortillas cooked by Kirsten that although New Zealand is a good cook Mexican. Another bonfire is the backdrop to our chat, our postcards and our thoughts...
Sixth day
At about 09.00 we start with destination "Badlands National Park" the journey is not long so we make a long stop in Wall. More than a town, Wall is a huge "drugstore" where each year are poured around 1,000,000 visitors and potential customers. In addition to the aforementioned shopping center all around there are other shops selling the same items, from coffee to toys of the old west, from cakes to leather products, souvenirs from the products in gold. Advantage of the place and, after an enormous indecision in front of hundreds of pairs, buy the cowboy boots as well as the hat that they give me air gunman ... In the early afternoon, you depart. The Badlands are already there from a distance: a huge expanse where green hills rise suddenly and completely bare canyons. As soon as we enter the park we decide to make a small excursion in this desolate lunar landscape. Here the heat is felt because the rock almost everywhere white reflects the sun's rays. The scenery is unreal at times between the peaks (which rarely reaches a height of 50 meters) and in the canyons, there is no soul living apart from a few lizards. The erosion, which continues his work lasted millions of years, has created these "bad lands" where we live almost soul alive. In the evening participate in a meeting with the Rangers where we learn that the park is not only restricted to the desert because much of the prairie around the rocky conformation is a site of a draft of repopulation after the elimination of thousands of bison in the'800 has almost destroyed its ecosystem. 100 miles for about four hours.
Seventh day
Another rainy day ... Finish to visit these places inhospitable "to board the bus so we can observe the ibex antilocapre and climbs between these hills that made the setting for several films. Before arriving at the "Devil's Tower National Monument" we make a long stop in Deadwood. Illegally populated by gold-diggers in the second half of the nineteenth century, this town has become a national historic U.S.. The main street is lined with restored buildings and going back to that period. Now we are facing a quiet village that welcomes gamblers (especially pocker). Is the mythical "Nr.10 Saloon" where one day in 1878 the famous Wild Bill Hickok was shot in the back during a game of cards (those who had in his hand is still called "the hand of the dead"). Between a drop of rain and the other we have also witnessed a re-enactment on two duels and shootings nice enough but not so plausible ... If I think about 130 years ago between these pathways also walked Buffalo Bill, Calamity Jane, Doc Hollyday and Wyatt Earp (remember the "Challenge all'OK Coral"?), Etc. ... The intention is to go to the "Mt Memorial Cemetery" where WB Hickock and Calamity Jane are buried side by side (the items that were said at the lovers), but another shower us to desist. After about an hour of the road and after it returned to Wyoming, so to Devil's Tower, where Spielberg has filmed the final scenes of his "close encounters of the third kind." Time has made fair and take advantage now to go in the park. The place is sacred to some 20 tribes of natives and a magical atmosphere with us while we follow the path that runs around the mountain. Often find the "prayer" (prayer) from American left are the colored ribbons embellished with pen and let hang from the branches of pine trees. This area, just 2 miles square, was set up a national monument in 1906, the first of many. The campsite for tonight is located at the foot of the tower and its shadow in the night gives us all a fantastic atmosphere. 210 miles for about six hours of travel.
Eight day
For a change we get up with the rain that will make us company all day (or almost), we must also go through much of the area north of the state. In fact today our goal is Cody. It 'been very impressive through the Bighorn National Forest "where we had close contact with a reindeer. Then we could share up to see the peaks around us still snowy. We arrived in Cody to 16.00 and now we have visited "The Old Trail Town." An original village of the second half of the nineteenth century, but with something special: the different buildings (houses and huts) have been transported from their original location (village or forest) to here considered because of historic buildings. Indeed, one can admire the oldest existing saloon, a post office, un'emporio, etc.. Among the most "interesting" there is the cabin where Butch Cassidy and his gang called "Wild Bunch" (wild flock) were hidden for a period and a small museum with interesting relics, including old rifles and pistols. There is also a small and curious cemetery. Here lie the remains of local people then become famous, at that time buried in abandoned areas, we have recently had a dignified burial and all thanks to a group of volunteers and fans that "hearsay" or "passed down by memory father to son "went in search of these graves and these shacks. Among those buried there is also Jeremiah "Liver Eatin 'Johnston, trapper who died alone on the big screen that was played by Robert Redford. The rest of the afternoon we spent at the shopping carried out mainly by "The Irma Hotel", hotel owned by Federick William Cody (Buffalo Bill) and construction of the first city founded in the beginning of'900. For dinner we decided to eat at the Bubba BBQ ", an excellent place where for a modest price, I ate an excellent smoked pork ribs on the plate, the plate was overflowing and they did not want to leave I risked un'indigestione. To end the day in beauty, we went to see "The Cody Nite Rodeo" (of which this city is one of the capital). I must say that they are almost a show for tourists, there was not much competition between gareggianti and so I was not able to fully enjoy the atmosphere: sin. We have not even turned on the bonfire, and the tiredness today we made ourselves heard. 328 miles for about 7 hours of travel.
Ninth day
Today the sun ... incredible! While Kirsten, Bettina and Lukas went to the library to use internet (but I say ... you are in areas that maybe you will not see you anymore and diving on the web?), Cornell and I are gone, wisely, the "Buffalo Bill Historical Center. " Too big to see everything in two hours and so we decided to divide us having different interests. I personally visited the Cody Firearms Museum "on a huge collection of firearms (the beginning to the present day), where of course the weapons of the old west are the stars; curious ded a movie where there are weapons used by large in several Hollywood films so we have seen in the Colt series "Bonanza," those used by John Wayne or Gregory Peck, etc.. I also visited the Buffalo Bill Museum "on the life of the famous, if not" boaster "(for many), adventurer. Now I make a parenthesis at the beginning of'900 this character had the brilliant idea to carry around in America and around Europe a show entirely dedicated to the west: the life of the settlers to coach running from American Indian (including them was also Sitting Bull - Sitting Bull). The show was also a stage Trieste (as if my grandmother was among the spectators) and also in Tuscany, where the cowboy during a challenge with our cowboys, have been defeated. However the most interesting was the "Plains Indian Museum" the museum of the Indians of the plains. Interesting because it concerns the life of Indian tribes that are currently at risk of losing their cultural identity. See their craft (all original parts manufactured at the turn of XIX and XX century), which ranges from their arms to their headdresses of feathers, from toys to clothes to skin and beads, from cradles to vases .... See their story described on ornamental leather (on a there was a description of the Wounded Knee massacre perpetrated by the "blue coats" against the Lakota-Sioux and raised on the screens with the name "Soldier Blue" - the first Indian film pro). .. Around 12.00 we depart towards the park's most famous and oldest of the United States: "The Yellowstone National Park" which is about 50 miles. After crossing the Shoshone National Forest "with the impact this park was not among the best: that's just entered the considerable uneasiness about the ongoing work on the road ... rain and cold (more so ...). A quick meal at Sylvan Lake and again on the march. Having traveled the road that runs along part of Yellowstone Lake (a large lake at about 2350 meters above sea level) we stop at the West Thumb Geyser Basin. " One of the many areas of the park where you can see this spectacle of nature: how the other parties, there are trails height (not to sink and burn your feet) that take you close to these puffs of steam or large puddles of water bubbling crystalline or mud. Strange and wonderful is the impact of this very hot with that of the nearly frozen lake. It 'time to go, His Majesty's most famous geyser in the world awaits us ... This is "The Old Faithful" geyser of an "Upper Geyser Basin, which every hour and half show her" puff ", which varies from 35 to 50 meters in height, in front of hundreds and hundreds of people. The luck is ours, the sky is open and the sun will cheer this show that starts a few minutes after our arrival: steam and boiling water, which are sketches for three minutes upward. In the end we should continue our visit to the hydrological basin, because in addition to old Faithful is possible to observe the "Castle Geyser" from its crater, which sprays steam for 20 minutes and 20 minutes for water: his head high creates rainbows around us while water spray falls on our faces ... From afar they look even more ... the "Grand Geyser, the Geyser Hill", etc ... Note that only in this area there are 180 events geoternali. But not only these aspects of nature make us companion. For three Bull bison (bison slightly larger than do not like to live in the pack) have approached us and dozens of other tourists seem rather tame and come to graze the grass at two meters even at the face of signs that warn you of bison sull'irrascibilità! And we also be careful, this enormous animal is able to cross the road without hesitation. However, in addition to the bison, even the wildlife here is very consistent and we can safely say that there is a "sample" of all animals present in the north of this continent. It 'time to go towards the village of West Yellowstone place just after the western entrance of the park in the state of Montana. For a village so small I have to say that the night life is great ... Indeed in contrast to other places visited, the shops close late with significant presence of tourists thirsty for gifts and souvenirs to take home (for example, we ...) 125 miles for about 5 hours of travel.
Tenth day
We are lucky: it does not rain ... but very cool. Today is the day dedicated to visiting other parts of the park. The first stop is made at the "Midway Geyser Baisn" means a tank full of boiling water and containing crystal ... including the "Great Prismatic Spring" which with its many colors emitted "smoke" that goes from red to orange to blue and then of course these are the rays of the sun reflecting on these colors projected on the steam. Another spa is the "Norris Geyser Basin" divided into "Porcelain and Black Area": the first shows a large expanse of limestone similar, in fact, the porcelain and the second, thanks to the trunks charred or dry imprisoned in geological, appears much darker. After about two hours we arrive at "Mammoth Hot Springs, where we find ourselves in front of a hill covered with multicolored limestone. Indeed here, the action hydrothermal created millennia, terraces and waterfalls full tanks of boiling water. Scenario very suggestive as many paths we can walk through the terraces. At the base of this limestone formation is "Fort Yellowstone" now transformed visitors center and a hotel than in the past was also the spa (closed because too went to call on the ecosystem). The lunch bag rigorously, we have eaten at one of many recreational vehicle picnic: curious, at the end of the meal, was the discovery of the remains of a moose certainly devoured by a bear ... If the bear comes to Dine here, then it means that we eat really well! Just time to relax and again on board the bus that brings us to "Tower Fall," one of the most beautiful waterfalls in the park, the "Petrified Tree, a fossilized tree trunk that stands out on top. Needless to say that the encounters with the animals were so many, really many. Excellent was the decision to dine in the park: we stopped a few miles from camp, in an area for picnics where Bettina Cornelli and have a good cooked vegetable soup with sausage. The company is not failure: the mosquitoes of the park where all are returned to us ... Approximately 150 miles.
Eleventh day
Even today it anticipates a beautiful day that is suitable to visit in the morning, the last part of the " Yellowstone NP" and move to the nearby Grand Teton N.P.. So, after breakfast and loaded on the bus all our things we left to the Yellowstone River and the Grand Canyon. In this area we will stop in four "critical" to observe this narrow and beautiful valley, the river and the most beautiful waterfall in the park. Really interesting to observe the geological conformation of the valley, with all its rock layers, indicating its age. The waterfall, with its enormous quantity of water (the thaw period) and with the help of the sun, show all the colors of the rainbow. Two reindeer, heedless of the hundreds of tourists arrived here, graze peacefully ... The time is tyrant and after about two hours along the road that goes south, we enter the "Grand Teton NP: this park is attached to the Yellowstone and so only the signs show us that we have entered into this huge valley where the mountain range that gives name to the park is reflected in three lakes: Jackson, Leigh and Jenny Lakes. The vegetation here has changed, and before we had only pine trees, hence the presence of birch trees, there is much to hear. During the usual and quick lunch we decide to submit in the "Cascade Canyon" after a short trip by motor boat on Jenny Lake. The rise, even if it does not appear, it is a little difficult and in fact, do not even entered my old knee pain to hear it again (pain that will accompany me to the house) ... So I am forced, unfortunately, to leave others in their adventure in the narrow valley, while I have to settle for a long pause before the waterfalls of Cascade Creek and then on the shore of the lake, waiting for their return. In the late afternoon we arrive in the note to Jackson Hole town where, after seeing an exhibition of the old west gunman, we start to run through the streets and shops of this famous tourist resort: in addition to the park, visited almost exclusively in summer, has many ski resorts and so the tourist is present throughout the year. For dinner we decide to give us the mad joy and so we end the "Million Dollar - Cowboy Bar and Restaurant." The restaurant, located in the basement, is a beautiful local wood where all the meat does not really give you: however, just bite the "T-Bone" well watered by the craft beer money really goes into the background! Right time and you pay above the bar where, in true western style, welcomes us with country music played by a band. I can say that in "my world". Everyone (except us) wearing the hat and boots wide groundwater ... strictly on everything. The two bars, instead of having normal chairs, have two rows of saddles that at the end of the evening will leave two legs to John Wayne. Today, the evening was very long (like the river of beer) and so there is now a nanna. 190 miles for about 5 hours.
Thirteenth day
Today levataccia ... At 05.00 Cornelli, myself and Lukas, who accompanies us, we get up to an experience worthy of an "aircraft". In fact, the first morning will be devoted to a hot air balloon ride over the Jackson Hole Area. For one hour over a small part of the park that leaves us wonder: stay suspended in the air up to about 1,000 meters above the ground and heard nothing (apart from the gas burners that create hot air balloon in) gives me a really strange feeling that is hard to describe ... really. From these heights you can see the high peaks of Grand Teton Mountain (along with the mountain range) and also of houses, owned by famous people that have nothing to envy those of Hollywood. On the ground I hear the pilot that the landing place is never the same: in fact, using the various existing currents at various altitudes (and never the same) can, with great experience to touch the ground without much ado. A toast, a must for the christening of a trip in a balloon (Californian champagne at 08.00 am), the delivery certificate as "aircraft" and path to the south ... to Salt Lake City. We are back in the state of Utah. Close to Heaven Fish Town we stop for lunch, the place is called "Bear Lake State Park Marina," a miserable place consists of a small marina: the park has only the name ... Here Kirsten, Cornell and Lukas spend about an hour on water-scooter (not a fun mposso allow me to physical problems ... sin). Interstate 15/84 on the road that leads us to SLC there is a row crazy because of an accident (the files are files ... wherever you are), and so we decide to dine at Ogden Town at "The Old Country Store, a restaurant at all expensive (its chain is famous in all the States) that offers a low price a great meal without alcohol. After almost two weeks we are back to square one: Salt Lake City. Time is still so much and so we decide to go to the movies: not the classic cinema! We have given the name "drive in" Here they call him "movie car" or "movie car". We believe that the United States this type of cinema is common ... no! From New York to Los Angeles to count them all will be only 15! Here in the SLC "movie car" has "only" 10 contemporary projections: a multiplex for cars. We decide to see the last film (and first) with Brad Pirtt with Angelina Joly titled "Mr. and Mrs. Brown. "For the sound no problem: just tune the radio waves of the film you show to the cashier. A good audio but the video leaves much to be desired, especially pollution data from the other video screens that light coming from the city. However, seeing all those people equipped with sofas brought from home and loaded on a pickup or sitting in the luggage, the car I realize that this type of "socialization", at least here is still valid.
Fourteenth day
This being the last day to travel in the 'Old West', is devoted to a visit to Salt Lake City. The night passed at the start, was fantastic (a real bed after over ten days). Since this place the capital of the Mormons (important for the colonization of these lands) decide to visit the park of "This Is The Place Heritage Park", that Brigham Young, to the east of the city (which did not exist), decided in 1847, after a long journey from Eastern, which was the venue where "the cart people" or people who crossed the continent with only a cart carried by hand, would find peace. Now on the spot, called "Old Deseret Village," in addition to a huge monument which commemorates the event (similar to that of Moses in front of the Palestine) on the spot, is called the original village where the first settlers lived Mormons. There are many people who, wearing costumes, are free to drive or do not appear to be religious propaganda. After seeing the harsh life of the time, we move into the modern city stands where the Olympic Village for the Winter Olympics in 2002 (transformed into university town). Here at the stadium, covering various sports and where there were the ceremonies of opening and closing of the games, there's a fountain on which are etched the names of those who climbed on the podium (including many Italians) and a museum that recalls the main events of this Olympiad. Lunch at a fast food called "Hugy Yugy" known in the States where substantial sandwiches or dishes are cooked at the time (odd): obviously the non-alcoholic drink, after paying the first glass, is included in the price. Before you give us to decide to go shopping at the Great Salt Lake. It 'one of the largest salt lakes in the world that, unfortunately, somewhat' at a time, you are withdrawing. One of the places to admire the "Jump Beach" away from the city about 15 miles. Here at the beginning of 900 there was a huge beach known in all the States: on the train, even tourists coming here from Los Angeles or San Francisco. If during the day it was swimming or sunbathing, the evening was a huge ballroom that plays here. Then one day everything went on fire and after about 80 years they have rebuilt, but not with the magnificence of the past. A stroll on bagnasciuga you hear in the strong smell of salt because the percentage of salt in water reaches 27%. Pity that frame there is a huge landfill and an industrial plant ... the presence of dead fish and seagulls ago presage something! Is depressing to see the old rail cars left to themselves ... after so much glory! We return to town late in the afternoon and so, as agreed, each on his own again dedicated to one of the most practiced sports in those days: the shopping. I must say that you have not bought anything (since only the usual things and also Pacchiana - dress "signed" not even the shadow) and so I dedicate this walk to stores, shopping centers and residential areas. For dinner, the last dinner of this trip, we decide to return to the "Hard Rock Cafe" (the last of many visited). The waitress was so available (and cute) that you'd be brought home as a domestic! Beautiful and rare relics of rock that are exposed here: the Beach Boys to ZZTop. Now that we have to spend the last night in this city that while forbidding, almost always, admits alcohol beer, even a river ...
RETURN TRAVEL
It 'time to go home and so, early in the morning, Lukas offers to accompany me to the airport. And here begins my Odyssey ... the second. At check-in desk of Delta Airlines (subsidiary Alitalia repeat ... subsidiary), even if you insist, make me a boarding pass only to Boston. Kindly explain that since I only have 50 minutes available to me is difficult to change terminals and introduce the Alitalia desk in time to reply I was told that the bank of the Italian airline is in the same terminal of arrival and therefore does not have to worry. At least the bags (increased from one to two during these 15 days) to find a Ronchi d / L. So I commend the staff of a security "TSA" who congratulated me because all the electronic devices were allowed in hand luggage and I set out for the boarding area. At the security check, I check and I turn like a sock ... and so the rest available to them for good 10 minutes: really friendly people who handle with care all these devices that I carry. As "volevasi show", the plane starts with 15 minutes of delay in flight will lose so many ... while my nervousness increases! Moreover, decreased as a sliver the plane (having only 20 minutes available) the dealer discovered that Alitalia is truly ... in another terminal, if one looks further away from where I am! I put a run and longed to reach the check-in just in time to know that the flight was "closed" because leaving ... Checking my documents just to see if my last name on this American holiday was changed to "Fantozzi" or "sfigato" ... Fortunately, the hostess of land can get in among the passengers in flight to Fiumicino and so I find myself in your hands the boarding pass I accompany up to Ronchi. Even here the joke no personal checks, and so another 10 minutes pass in the clutches of security (luckily you do not remove the pants, at least not in public). Recently discovered on board the aircraft because I had trouble finding the place: just under half the seats are empty and so, with the permission of those on board, all we can to address systemic comfortably, or near, the flight direction 'Italy.
HOME
Arrival at Fiumicino around 08.00 and I have to wait 5 hours before re because the first flight for home was in the early afternoon. If I could take the flight to Malpensa, to 11.00 could already be in the shadow of the castle of Gorizia ... and anchor a few hours instead of "agony". I am just facing outside of the Roman Empire, I feel warm and sultriness (almost overwhelming) and therefore I want to buy a ticket to return from where they came: in the lands that are now a memory, the temperature was really more cool! After storing unconsciously, in my walks, visited every corner of the "Leonardo da Vinci" here I am finally on board the plane that after just over an hour to accompany me home. And now the last thing before you take your car for Gorizia: I have to retrieve my luggage. Of course, after a few minutes of waiting, I notice that on the luggage conveyor belt that, with so much confidence, I had left the "TSA" in Salt Lake City are not there. Thinking about where they can be (Boston, SLC, New York Bombay ...) I decide that the only thing to do is to address the points "lost and found." The two bags were there, I waited from morning, after being unloaded from the plane Malpensa (that my "original"): how is it possible that in Boston there was the time to load on my transoceanic flight bags and not myself?
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