Salt Lake City to Brigham, Utah

Breakfast was three miles away at the University of Utah dining hall. Breakfast buffets are the best. We took our time eating and not talking because we were all mesmerized by watching the Tour de France. I turned to Austin and said, “I’m already slugging today and I’m not even on my bike yet.”

Sixty miles, and forty of them were on a bike path. I was actually getting really bored during this bike path, and suddenly I saw the top of a ferris wheel in the distance. I figured I would go ride one ride at the carnival and continue on. But it wasn’t a carnival, it was a huge amusement park! I asked around kindly, and got an admission ticket that was the employees half price discount. Sweet! I cleared it with sweep and the van driver, and Guest Services even let me stash my bike in their building. I haven’t been to an amusement park in like two years!

I only rode the rollercoasters, all five of them, and left. There was a wooden one, a loop de loop, a mousetrap, one with a freely spinning cart on the track, and even one with a vertical ascent and drop. Though the lines were backed up because it was Saturday, I got to skip much of the lines because I was a single rider. I had so much fun and I didn’t even get to the waterpark. It was 2pm when I left the park, and it was very hot outside. I rode with sweep into lunch, and I felt bad for holding them up as long as I did, but they were glad I had a good time. I quickly filled up my water, grabbed a Clif bar, pumped up my tire, and left lunch in under ten minutes. I stopped at a gas station a mile away for ice, but I also had an idea. I went to the cashier and said, “I need to ask for a favor. There are two more riders that are a ways behind me, and I’m wondering if I could pay for their medium slushies now, and when they stop in here later they can get them?” The cashier said that was fine, and I texted sweep about their treats.

So I made a short sixty mile day long, but I had a blast. We’re now in a park and sleeping under a pavilion. The park is right next to a community pool that has a waterslide, so it’s like I finally got to go into the waterpark!