Traveling during Covid is interesting. We’re not eating inside restaurants at this point, especially not in Idaho or Utah where community spread is wide. We generally make sandwiches for lunch and eat outside of some Starbucks or other. We also have camp chairs we can set up if we want to eat at a rest area or in a park or wherever. Dinner is going to be more interesting. We’ll look for places with outdoor seating or maybe do take out and go back to the hotel.

Today we drove from Boise to Lehi, UT. We’re headed for Boulder, CO. The shortest and quickest way is through southern Wyoming. Cutting across CO is far more interesting but longer. So we are breaking it up into three short days instead of two long ones. Tonight we’re in Lehi, then Grand Junction, CO for one night and then a day of driving through the CO mountains to end up in Bouder.

Why Lehi? It’s past Salt Lake City, so we bite the bullet on traffic in the afternoon instead of during the morning of the next day. And, it’s near… In-n-Out Burger! Normally we would eat inside, but see above. So we ordered at the drive-through and took our food to… where? Hmmm. American Fork, yes that’s the name of a town, appears to be paved top to bottom, side to side with strip malls. No obvious green space. So we picked a strip mall, found an empty parking area and ate by the UCCU sign. Better than any sunset. Well, no.

Who cares? We had Double-doubles!