Drive on the Bonneville Salt Flats

“In cinematic form we sped through to the flats with our video camera rolling. The loaded down Ford maxed out at 93mph but driving on the famed salt was an experience non-the less. Hurling into what appeared to be an unchanging landscape, I took off my sunglasses, instantly blinded by the unrelenting whiteness. Minutes past and I noticed a change in the sound of the moving fast moving vehicle. Looking behind us, I saw dark tire tracks growing ever deeper. We franticly shouted at each other to find solid ground, as if this act alone could steer us from harm, our speed dropping ever slower. Within moments it seemed our fate was clear, we were once again stuck in the mud!”

“The conditions were perfect for driving onto it and playing! Jeffrey and I danced, explored and used the white nothingness as a backdrop for taking creative photos. I feel like I could have spent weeks there and not gotten sick of it. [...] Really, the only negative thing I can say about our visit to the salt flats is this; THERE ARE SO MANY FLIES. It was such a surprising, weird, phenomenon that no one seems to mention. It’s not like there are flies swarming all around you outside but they are unnoticeably there, in desperate search for something stationary to land on that isn’t salt. So when you provide that for them, they show up in droves. We ended up with hundreds of them inside Mander and boy oh boy, did I wish I had come stuffed to the gills with fly paper.”

“It was pretty disappointing at first - kind of gray and muddy looking. There had been some rain lately so the flats were damp and we had been warned that driving on them might not be wise. We got out and walked around a bit. Then we got a big break... A big old SUV sped through the parking lot and right out onto the flats, along a "road" that we hadn't noticed before, being all white you know. So we thought, if he can do it, so can Ms. Subaru. And so she did. No problemo. Doesn't she look racey? We drove out about a half mile and parked so we could get a feel for the surface... and the unique landscape.”