Our "Best Of Utah" Route
I was skeptical moving away from my California paradise to the arid and hot and cold Utah desert. But this red rock, Wasatch state has proven itself in the year that I have lived here. This past weekend Utah re-wowed me as I spent three days taking my parents up and down Eastern Utah for their first visit. You could call it a “best of trip,” starting with mole at Salt Lake’s Red Iguana (killer Mexican food, really). The folks had fun with the Utah altitude hiking up to the Timpanogos Caves, driving through Castle County to Arches National Park, seeing Delicate Arch that graces the Utah license plate, riding the chair lift at Sundance and poking around art galleries in Park City.
And there are several bests we didn’t have time to do, like float down the Provo River, make our way through slot canyons, eat Navajo Tacos, snow skiing or sleep under the stars.
So, I’m living proof that you can drive nearly 600 miles in one weekend with your parents and finish the trip happy…as long as you have a group of adventurous spirits and an amazing state like Utah to tour.
While attending the first annual Salt Lake Bicycle Summit this weekend, I had the chance to meet the fabulous Tara Mckee, organizer of the 2009 Cycle Style Show-Salt Lake City.
The Cycle Style Show is a local outdoor fashion show that will show off functional and fashionable commuter cycling clothing and accessories (see preview here), in action, on some really cool commuter-friendly bikes.
Whether attendees currently commute into town for work, to shop, to hang with friends or (gasp!) do not ride a bike at all, this show is sure to inspire folks to dust off the bikes in their garage and get out on a bike this summer.
The Cycle Style Show is Friday, May 15 at 7 p.m. at the Gallivan Center in SLC. Hope to see you there!
Courtney enjoys the signs of Spring on the Electra Amsterdam with the tulip design
Life is too short to be taken seriously all the time.
In that regards, major kudos to Sean Sullivan, the 215-pound senior wrestler from Wasatch High School in Heber, Utah, who strode into the spotlight on Saturday prior to the finals match at the state wrestling championship tournament held at Utah Valley University wearing a luchador mask. (And yes, Sullivan won, pinning Delta High School’s Spencer Nielson in the first period to win the title for the second year in a row.)
According to Dictionary.com, luchador is the Spanish word for a wrestler, and it takes its name from the spanish term “lucha libre,” which means, literally “free wrestling.” Lucha libre defines the high-flying form of professional wrestling made popular in Mexico and parodied in the 2006 Jack Black film Nacho Libre.
Thanks to award-winning photographer Trent Nelson for sending me a copy of this photo to use in this blog post. Trent works for the Salt Lake Tribune, and more of his work can be on the SLTribune’s photo blog here. You can also check out Trent’s Fly on the Wall blog here or The Click, Trent’s personal blog about photography here.
So from one wrestler to another (105s and 115s in 1972 and 1973 at San Carlos High School in California), congrats Sean. 
