Limbo... Food Heaven and Driving Hell

We woke Tuesday morning and were eager not to squander the day. Similar to when we left Angella and Kyle's place, we had everything already packed up the night before, so we didn't have to waste much time sitting around before we could leave. After we cleaned up a bit, both ourselves and Megan's place, we piled in the car and began to leave Park City. We met Megan at her office to say goodbye, drove by the closed hot shop once more, then headed to the highway. We would both like to thank Megan and Becca for opening up their home to us and spending the Halloween weekend entertaining our traveling souls! The day before Megan had regrettably informed us of a restaurant that we should have visited while we had time to explore Salt Lake City. Her suggestion was Ruth's Diner. This restaurant had been featured on Diner's, Drive-ins, and Dive's and reportedly was amazing. Katie and I decided that our Salt Lake City visit wouldn't be complete lest we visited this place, so we hit the back roads on the way to the city and found it at the bottom of a canyon, 10 miles outside of Salt Lake. I hope I don't have to tell you that this place was amazing. They brought us completemtary biscuits which were the size of my forearm, diminishing any thought we had of appetizers that we had. Katie ordered Ruth's homemade mac and cheese and topped it with a pile of pulled pork and I ordered the Cajan Bacon Blue Burger. Both were amazing and filling

but Katie definitely won the award for best meal that day. Though we were both stuffed and were already having difficulty breathing, I just had to order dessert. I changed my mind about 10 times before actually ordering it, knowing that we were already full and I didn't need it, but I couldn't help but feel I would never get the opportunity to taste something that good again. Ultimately I figured that if I was still craving it while I was stuffed, I should order it, and did. The desert in question was homemade chocolate pudding topped with whipped cream. Though this may not sound

tempting, if you could only read the description of how its made, I guarentee you would have trouble passing it up too. The desert did not disappoint and we both delighted in stuffing ourselves while we posed for the dictionary picture of gluttony. We rolled ourselves to the car

and headed to southern Utah. We knew that this drive would take most of the day and didn't have any plans other than to get ourselves down in the area of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks so we would be poised to take on the next day. On the way out of Salt Lake we drove past the This Is The Place monument. We were first aware of this monument during our visit to Antelope Island

when one of the demonstrations at the visitor center used the monument as a reference point. Apparently, the This Is The Place monument was erected to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first Mormon settlers looking over the Great Salt Lake and exclaiming "this is the place" to the followers, thus settling the Salt Lake region. We didn't really care much

about this monument but got out to walk around for about 10 minutes trying to burn off some of our lunch. When we got back in the car, we drove. We made it all the way to Arches National Park just a little before 6 p.m. and drove inside to catch the sunset. Once the

sun was down, we left the park and headed into the city of Moab. Megan had told us of the Moab Brewery where she took her parents for their anniversary one year and that just so happened to be where we ended up that night as well. We were still full from our lunch earlier in the day, but ordered some chips and salsa and some drinks to help pass the time. By the time we left it was only 8:30 p.m. but since there isn't much to do after dark, we just headed to a rest area nearby and bedded down for the night.