“You don’t need a weatherman
To know which way the wind blows”
— Bob Dylan in the first rap song ever
Had beer at Squatters last night. SLC is where my company is headquartered. Having strategy meetings to try to move the company forward. I work for a supremely laid back company, but we are in a growth phase and we need to exploit that a bit better. We are historically (hysterically?) risk averse. But MORE importantly, the beer scene here is stupendous. And the coworkers I hate aren't here, just me and the big bosses. What a great trip.
I hate your avatar, btw.
Also, to be fair, the entire, like, southern half of Utah is national park land (fully 2/3 of the state is owned by the feds in one capacity or another), so it's not as if I'm dismissing the entire state out of hand, just the parts with, y'know...people and "culture."
Southern Utah IS pretty spectacular…also where a lot of the extra special polygamy compounds are. The Wasatch and Uintas are both very pretty. Logan to Bear Lake is cool.
I feel like eating roast peppers with sour beer in SLC while listening to TLC and wearing close toed shoes is your version of heck.
Do we know Wilson and Aimo aren't the same person? I like how feisty they are.
Plus a little history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_blues
Utah is one of the 11 states I have not yet visited.
It still amazes me there is an actual area/region where it’s prevalent but the settling in southern Utah was by design. Not much there so they’re mostly left alone. America has such diversity; it still amazes me my Amish neighbors are essentially living outside American laws in the pre-industrial age.
https://ksltv.com/437048/polygamous-...wn-struggling/
We lived there for a year for my wife’s Americorps service. We were unmarried at the time in our late 20s and we’re also very nice people —- our Mormon friends all liked us and we liked them but it was clear we didn’t quite fit the mold of what they expected. We had a couple very polite attempted conversions
I’ll be a good guest wherever I go so it didn’t bother me too much.