Life in Geezerville: Big CIty Edition

(Not SLC, but Geezerville North)

We are in Salt Lake City tonight. SLC is a huge city...especially when Geezerville South is a small town of 20,000 souls and Geezerville North is a smaller town of 1700 souls. We are used to small towns and SLC is NOT a small town. It's moves ALL THE TIME. There's traffic that is speeding along at a gazillion miles an hour where we are used to traffic going 35 mph. Talk about being a square peg in a round hole.

Don't get me wrong, we are perfectly able to drive in traffic. When we go to Vegas or St. George we are driving in traffic...but SLC has CAPITAL T Traffic. It does not stop...it just keeps going and going and going. We are used to St. George...drive there all the time--no hassle. We don't like Vegas so we don't go there often, and when we do, we go to our destination, do our job and get out of town. In GN there are no "big" towns nearby. Idaho Falls is our major shopping location and it's not a big town. We also know our way around Idaho Falls, like we know our way around St. George and Vegas. We don't know our way around SLC. As you know, knowledge is power...and we have no knowledge of SLC.

After we found where we needed to go on the University of Utah campus, we asked SIRI to return us to our lodgings. SIRI  took us on a circuitous route by the Utah State House, no less, before directing us to I-15. At one point I said "SIRI this is stupid" and she replied saying I was not being nice to her. Once on the interstate, we knew where we were and made our way home. That was a good thing. 

Tomorrow, we'll have to wend our way back to UU, and make our 1 PM appointment.  At least we know where to go now. We don't know the specific building on campus but someone can direct us. Then when we are done, we are going to scamper out of SLC as fast as we can. We are going to return to our small, quiet, sleepy Geezerville and enjoy the slow. Remember, we're all in this together.