Traveling: Snapshots From Salt Lake City

(Drivebycuriosity) - My wife and I are still traveling. After leaving Vancouver we moved to Salt Lake City. The capital of Utah, founded by Mormon pioneers, has just about 200,000 residents but it is an interesting place anyway. 

 

Surrounded by mountain chains the city spreads over a vast valley, comparable to Las Vegas.

 

I love the very generous designed streets. City founder Brigham Young wanted them wide enough to permit an ox-pulled wagon team to turn around without "resorting to profanity" (wikipedia. ).

  

Unfortunately the iconic temple, the center of the city, and other Mormon icons are under construction but there was still a lot to see and to photograph.

 

                                    

 

I am fascinated by the cubist Orrin G. Hatch United States Courthouse court. It is on the first view a brutalist block but by closer inspection it shows some delicate art. According to wikipedia "the courthouse was designed by Thomas Phifer of the Thomas Phifer & Partners architectural firm in New York. While the courthouse has been named after US senator Orrin G. Hatch, locals have nicknamed it the "Borg Cube" after the Borg, the villainous alien race in Star Trek. The building's nickname was a reference to its cubical profile (the Borgs of Star Trek used cubical spaceships) and ´austere aesthetic`".

 

Btw At Wholefoods in Salt Lake City we got a Seven Grain Bread which was as good as the bread I am used from my German childhood  

 

To be continued