Sunday, Oct 14th

A bit of a slow start today, I washed the motorhome where all the road grit from the travel coming down from Red Deer and then down from Idaho.  Looks OK now, but it will get a proper cleaning when we get to AJ.
Went to the Bingham Canyon mine today, Kennecott Utah Copper, the largest open pit mine in the world.  It is apparently the only manmade structure visible from space.  It is 3/4 mile deep & 2.5 miles across, pretty big stuff.  They have a bunch of those huge trucks, much like Ft McMurray, everything is huge at this facility.  It produces 1/4 of all the copper in the USA, as well as huge amounts of silver and substantial amounts of gold and was first started in something like 1906.  While we were there, they blew a charge in the bottom of the pit and it was so loud, Marg almost jumped out of her skin.  All we could see after was a big cloud of dust.  The commentator said the annual copper production would replace all the household wiring in: Mexico, the USA & Canada as well as all the cars built in the US for a year.
After we stopped in at IKEA and looked around for another sink cover like the one we already have, but it was discontinued.  We also had a late lunch in IKEA, pretty good food, actually.
On the way home we stopped in the Cabella store in Lehi.  I was looking for a new rear sight for the Ruger, but they didn't have it in stock.  We managed to get a few things, as usual Marg found some great bargains.  Nice store, nothing like the Edmonton one, this is a real Cabellas.

Plan on leaving here tomorrow to head down to Mesquite, so stay tuned.