Adventurers...

Anyways, Aimee and I have decided that we need to spend some time getting to know Utah more. So, last week we decided to be adventurous and go explore two things in Utah that we had never been too. One was the Golden Spike Museum and the other was the Spiral Jetty.

For those of you who don't know what either of these two are. The Golden Spike museum is
located at the spot that the last ceremonial spike was driven to mark the completion of the first transcontinental railroad. This Spike joined the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroads together on May 10, 1869.
You know it’s funny how the whole thing transpired. The government offered the company that could build the first transcontinental railroad a lot of money, not to mention that every other mile of railroad that they built they could own ever other square mile of land touching the railroad on both sides. This was great encouragement for the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific. Both built like crazy and met in Utah. Actually, neither railroad wanted to join together because that meant that they would not get the complete grant that the government offered, nor as much land as they would if they each built straight to the coast, so they actually passed each other and continued building. Fed up with the fighting, Congress declared where and when they should be joined. Pretty cool hu?!

Anyways we also went to see the Spiral Jetty. It’s a giant spiral built off of the North Coast of the Salt Lake coast. It was built by American sculptor Robert Smithson in 1970 during a drought with black basaltic rock, but after it was built the Salt Lake rose burying it with water for nearly three decades. Everybody just about forgot about it because of this and the death of the artist. Years later in 2004 the Spiral Jetty re-emerged because of a drought and everybody was like, "WTF where did this come from?" I'm sure a couple of loons were like, "Aliens!!" LOL.

It was a cool site. The Salt Lake is still very low, We walked out about 50 Yards to even reach the water. I believe you can walk out to Antelope Island from the South Shore. Which by the way there was an old anchor out there a while ago and I intend to go and get it! :)

Anyways, we plan to continue this tradition of exploring Utah for as many weekends as we possibly can. Its amazing, you live somewhere forever and you never go see anything thats there! We will try to keep everybody posted.