Today – our last day in the Baltic DLC, just travelling along ProMods’ Curonian Spit to Klaipeda in Lithuania.
After Rybachii we began catching glimpses of the nearby Baltic Sea through the trees.
The Russian-Lithuanian border lies ahead.
Just about to enter Lithuania.
Now we can see the Curonian Lagoon to the east. It’s a freshwater lagoon, and like the Spit, is named after a long-vanished Baltic tribe.
Dangerous situation. The bus let me through. When faced with a Bear, the Bull backed down. Looks like another bad day for the markets.
The old PM Curonian Spit was pretty epic. Let’s see how it is with the new edition. We can see Klaipeda now – awesome.
Juodkrante, yep, that’s right. The name of that nice settlement on the Spit. And they’ve rebuilt it. Looks great.
Approaching the ferry port of Smiltyne, which is - I guess - a suburb of Klaipeda.
That’s our ride.
Ready to go, parked worryingly close to the edge of the ferry.
Sigh, swoon... pray be gentle with me, Mr Ferryman. I'm carrying 20 tons of Gummy Bears.
Took some views of Klaipeda while we were waiting to leave.
CUT-SCENE!!! Wheee!
Superb, loved the crossing.
After heading back across the water to Smiltyne and then back again to Klaipeda just for fun, we paused to take some final shots of the port.
Yes, yes, we’ll deliver those Gummy Bears soon.
And that’s it. It’s been a great tour of the region, thanks for checking it out! Now it’s time to say goodbye to Anni, and head over the big pond once again to ATSland. The next tour is Utah.
Anni
FF2: Filling in the Suburbs
Thanks Bernhard!!!
Well, it’s now time for the fifth tour out of 12 planned for this thread, and we’re back with Dan in the good ol’ US of A. The state/DLC is Utah, the last of the four ‘mainly desert’ states of the American West*. The other three are, in order of newness and niceness, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico. All of these have their moments, and with their wide, dusty vistas they certainly make a change from the green tree-tunnels and colorful fields of Europe. But Utah definitely seems to be the best of them, at least partly because it doesn’t just contain Utah, but ADDS a significant amount of new roads and scenery to the FIVE states that surround it**. And the scenery both in Utah and outside is in many cases absolutely STUNNING.
(*As far as I know, Colorado, Wyoming and Texas are, like California and Oregon, home to some significant areas of arid, rocky country. Perhaps all of the western states have at least something like that, even Idaho and Washington. But they are not primarily desert.)
(**I later realised that this statement is rubbish, but whatever. It's the FEELING that counts.)
This is the last tour which I have the option of starting in my home base of Las Vegas, so I’m gonna do it.
We’ll be cruising in the International LT this time.
Got our cargo, which needs to be taken via St George, Hurricane Valley, and Fredonia to Kanab along a route that wobbles along the Utah – Arizona border.
A quick look at the official DLC map will show that the ONLY city in the south of Utah is St George. That’s it. It doesn’t mention Hurricane Valley, Fredonia or Kanab. And that’s where the second awesome thing about Utah lies. If you look at the map, there are just a few cities squished together mainly in the north, but in reality, there are loads of cool places not marked on the map because they have no jobsites, service stops or garages. In one way that’s a bad thing, but on the other hand there’s always plenty to discover, and it gives you just a taste of the vast wilderness that exists in that part of the world.
Aquariums free of sharks, libraries free of books that might make people feel… uncomfortable. Good ol’ USA at its finest.
Another great advert. America sometimes seems a very strange place through European eyes.
Leaving Las Vegas for the last time. For a while, at least. There’s a Red Bull Air Race going on in the background. I’ll say it again, whatever one feels about LV in real life, it makes an incredible starting city.
Along this route from Las Vegas to St George, we enter Arizona before we get to Utah.
Another great thing about Utah is that it marks the first occasion when SCS made use of new software for creating more realistic looking rocks. The difference between un-upgraded (in February 2022) Nevada and Utah is very noticeable.
Because all the cities in Utah are so clustered together, and there is so much empty space, this means that the majority of roads in the expansion actually lead from cities with jobsites in Utah to cities with jobsites OUTSIDE the state. The proportion of roads added by the DLC which are actually between cities in Utah is relatively small. My guess is maybe one third or even one quarter of the total amount of new roads. Everything else is heading out of the state – or into it, depending on your perspective.
And as each neighboring state is different, with varied landscapes, vegetation and rocks, and dates from different periods, what you’ve got with Utah is an amazingly varied map that is much more impressive than it looks on paper. To be honest, if I’d known it was so nice, I’d have left it till later in my Grand Tour of ETS2 and ATS. Well, too late now. I’m sure the other DLCs also have a lot to offer. Not sure they’ll beat Utah though, but we’ll see.
And here it is – Utah. We’re going to be seeing signs like this a lot, as I’ve decided to do this tour in a similar way to the lower Going East countries, but instead of touring all the within-state roads first and then making trips outside, I’m going to do the opposite – trips into Utah from its five neighbors for the first 2/3 of the tour, and then focus on the main cities of Utah and the connections between them for the final third.
Weigh stations. Allowed to bypass them this time.
Arriving in St George. It’s one of the main cities on the map, so we won’t explore it properly today. We’ll just whizz through on the flyover.
Cutting through the hills.
Heading towards a place called Hurricane Valley.
Hurricane Valley… I think.
Eastwards…
Southwards towards the Arizona border.
Arizona again. It’s all go ‘ere, innit.
And that’s it for now. Next time – Fredonia and Kanab, briefly, before starting a new trip from Pioche, Nevada to Cedar City in Utah. Thanks for looking in, and hope you liked.
Dan
Well, it’s now time for the fifth tour out of 12 planned for this thread, and we’re back with Dan in the good ol’ US of A. The state/DLC is Utah, the last of the four ‘mainly desert’ states of the American West*. The other three are, in order of newness and niceness, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico. All of these have their moments, and with their wide, dusty vistas they certainly make a change from the green tree-tunnels and colorful fields of Europe. But Utah definitely seems to be the best of them, at least partly because it doesn’t just contain Utah, but ADDS a significant amount of new roads and scenery to the FIVE states that surround it**. And the scenery both in Utah and outside is in many cases absolutely STUNNING.
(*As far as I know, Colorado, Wyoming and Texas are, like California and Oregon, home to some significant areas of arid, rocky country. Perhaps all of the western states have at least something like that, even Idaho and Washington. But they are not primarily desert.)
(**I later realised that this statement is rubbish, but whatever. It's the FEELING that counts.)
This is the last tour which I have the option of starting in my home base of Las Vegas, so I’m gonna do it.
We’ll be cruising in the International LT this time.
Got our cargo, which needs to be taken via St George, Hurricane Valley, and Fredonia to Kanab along a route that wobbles along the Utah – Arizona border.
A quick look at the official DLC map will show that the ONLY city in the south of Utah is St George. That’s it. It doesn’t mention Hurricane Valley, Fredonia or Kanab. And that’s where the second awesome thing about Utah lies. If you look at the map, there are just a few cities squished together mainly in the north, but in reality, there are loads of cool places not marked on the map because they have no jobsites, service stops or garages. In one way that’s a bad thing, but on the other hand there’s always plenty to discover, and it gives you just a taste of the vast wilderness that exists in that part of the world.
Aquariums free of sharks, libraries free of books that might make people feel… uncomfortable. Good ol’ USA at its finest.
Another great advert. America sometimes seems a very strange place through European eyes.
Leaving Las Vegas for the last time. For a while, at least. There’s a Red Bull Air Race going on in the background. I’ll say it again, whatever one feels about LV in real life, it makes an incredible starting city.
Along this route from Las Vegas to St George, we enter Arizona before we get to Utah.
Another great thing about Utah is that it marks the first occasion when SCS made use of new software for creating more realistic looking rocks. The difference between un-upgraded (in February 2022) Nevada and Utah is very noticeable.
Because all the cities in Utah are so clustered together, and there is so much empty space, this means that the majority of roads in the expansion actually lead from cities with jobsites in Utah to cities with jobsites OUTSIDE the state. The proportion of roads added by the DLC which are actually between cities in Utah is relatively small. My guess is maybe one third or even one quarter of the total amount of new roads. Everything else is heading out of the state – or into it, depending on your perspective.
And as each neighboring state is different, with varied landscapes, vegetation and rocks, and dates from different periods, what you’ve got with Utah is an amazingly varied map that is much more impressive than it looks on paper. To be honest, if I’d known it was so nice, I’d have left it till later in my Grand Tour of ETS2 and ATS. Well, too late now. I’m sure the other DLCs also have a lot to offer. Not sure they’ll beat Utah though, but we’ll see.
And here it is – Utah. We’re going to be seeing signs like this a lot, as I’ve decided to do this tour in a similar way to the lower Going East countries, but instead of touring all the within-state roads first and then making trips outside, I’m going to do the opposite – trips into Utah from its five neighbors for the first 2/3 of the tour, and then focus on the main cities of Utah and the connections between them for the final third.
Weigh stations. Allowed to bypass them this time.
Arriving in St George. It’s one of the main cities on the map, so we won’t explore it properly today. We’ll just whizz through on the flyover.
Cutting through the hills.
Heading towards a place called Hurricane Valley.
Hurricane Valley… I think.
Eastwards…
Southwards towards the Arizona border.
Arizona again. It’s all go ‘ere, innit.
And that’s it for now. Next time – Fredonia and Kanab, briefly, before starting a new trip from Pioche, Nevada to Cedar City in Utah. Thanks for looking in, and hope you liked.
Dan
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Today we finish our first journey from Nevada into Utah, and complete a second one.
Right now we’re actually in Arizona, approaching a new town added by the Utah DLC – Fredonia. It’s an ancient place – you can see that from the cliffs in the distance. It used to say FREDONIA there once, long ago, but all the other letters have fallen off over time. Now only the F remains.
Top speed in this area: 35 km/h. Any faster, and you haven’t got time to read everything they want you to know.
Some shacks.
Fredonia’s gas station. Good, I need some gas.
Me trying to enter Fredonia’s gas station. Oops.
Leaving Fredonia, Arizona.
And back into Utah.
A quick view of Kanab. We’ll pass through there properly another time. There’s no jobsite, but let’s imagine there was. Time to teleport back to Utah…
…to Coastland Mining near the town of Pioche some way north of Vegas near the Nevada/Utah border.
Passing Pioche with a super-large digging bucket.
Scenery town of Panaca. The turn-off to Utah is here.
Nevada roadside idyll.
Now we’re Utah-bound again.
Heading for the border.
Alright, here we go again!
Passing the town of Modena.
Striking out from Modena to Cedar City.
The arid landscape gets a bit greener as we near Cedar City. We’re not going to see da city today though.
The excavator bucket is needed at another Coastline outside town.
And there we will leave it. Next time, Cedar City, and mainly Ely, Nevada.
Dan
Right now we’re actually in Arizona, approaching a new town added by the Utah DLC – Fredonia. It’s an ancient place – you can see that from the cliffs in the distance. It used to say FREDONIA there once, long ago, but all the other letters have fallen off over time. Now only the F remains.
Top speed in this area: 35 km/h. Any faster, and you haven’t got time to read everything they want you to know.
Some shacks.
Fredonia’s gas station. Good, I need some gas.
Me trying to enter Fredonia’s gas station. Oops.
Leaving Fredonia, Arizona.
And back into Utah.
A quick view of Kanab. We’ll pass through there properly another time. There’s no jobsite, but let’s imagine there was. Time to teleport back to Utah…
…to Coastland Mining near the town of Pioche some way north of Vegas near the Nevada/Utah border.
Passing Pioche with a super-large digging bucket.
Scenery town of Panaca. The turn-off to Utah is here.
Nevada roadside idyll.
Now we’re Utah-bound again.
Heading for the border.
Alright, here we go again!
Passing the town of Modena.
Striking out from Modena to Cedar City.
The arid landscape gets a bit greener as we near Cedar City. We’re not going to see da city today though.
The excavator bucket is needed at another Coastline outside town.
And there we will leave it. Next time, Cedar City, and mainly Ely, Nevada.
Dan
Time for another set, and we’re still at the rather large Coastline facility near Cedar City, Utah.
It’s another of those ginormous…thingies!
Dropped the excavator bucket off at last. Let’s just have a quick peek at the local metropolis.
Again, it’s a main town with jobsites, so we’re not going to hang around. I just wanted to Cedar City for a moment.
Chortle, chuckle. We’re back in Nevada now, this time at Ely, which is closer to the top than the bottom of the state. There are two routes into Utah from Ely, and I don’t know the place very well, so we’ll explore a bit. Right now we’re driving into the local Gallon oil refinery – another nice bit of industrial architecture.
The scale and complexity are pretty impressive.
I’m not sure if this skin was entirely appropriate for hauling fuel oil from a refinery, but never mind.
Turning onto Ely’s main street.
Hotel Navada? Spelling fail.
Heading for the border. Our trip this time will take us through Delta to Salina, but we won’t get there today – plenty of natural beauty to document.
Haven’t seen one of those for a while.
Big Oil meets Sustainable. How do you do.
Sheep farm.
Approaching the border now.
Yyyyo! The border.
The landscapes in this part of the world are ever changing.
Soon we’ll be into a less arid, agricultural region but. Not. Today.
Dan
It’s another of those ginormous…thingies!
Dropped the excavator bucket off at last. Let’s just have a quick peek at the local metropolis.
Again, it’s a main town with jobsites, so we’re not going to hang around. I just wanted to Cedar City for a moment.
Chortle, chuckle. We’re back in Nevada now, this time at Ely, which is closer to the top than the bottom of the state. There are two routes into Utah from Ely, and I don’t know the place very well, so we’ll explore a bit. Right now we’re driving into the local Gallon oil refinery – another nice bit of industrial architecture.
The scale and complexity are pretty impressive.
I’m not sure if this skin was entirely appropriate for hauling fuel oil from a refinery, but never mind.
Turning onto Ely’s main street.
Hotel Navada? Spelling fail.
Heading for the border. Our trip this time will take us through Delta to Salina, but we won’t get there today – plenty of natural beauty to document.
Haven’t seen one of those for a while.
Big Oil meets Sustainable. How do you do.
Sheep farm.
Approaching the border now.
Yyyyo! The border.
The landscapes in this part of the world are ever changing.
Soon we’ll be into a less arid, agricultural region but. Not. Today.
Dan
Today’s trip takes us to Delta, mainly, and also briefly Salina.
Pylons on the way from the border to Delta, Utah.
Trees on the way to Delta. The arid landscape turned into farmland around here.
Crops on the way to Delta.
Tractors on the way to Delta.
Farms on the way to Delta.
Delta on the way to Delta.
It’s Delta. Quite a detailed scenery town, I like it.
Shame there isn’t at least one jobsite at places like these. There’s a Tidbit right here, for example, but no jobsite. Perhaps it was planned, and had to be abandoned for time/budget reasons.
There sure is a lot to see in Delta.
Leaving town, destination Salina.
In Brno, Czech Republic, where I live, šalina (pronounced shalina) is local slang for ‘tram’. They’re called ‘tramvaj’ in other places.
So I can’t help calling the city we’re heading for ‘shalina’ too. Of course, it’s actually related to the salt found nearby.
It’s a nice drive from Delta to Shalina. Salina!
This is Scipio, a scenery town on the way.
Okay, Salina at last. We’ll visit it properly another time. Let’s make the delivery.
And we’re done for today.
Dan
Pylons on the way from the border to Delta, Utah.
Trees on the way to Delta. The arid landscape turned into farmland around here.
Crops on the way to Delta.
Tractors on the way to Delta.
Farms on the way to Delta.
Delta on the way to Delta.
It’s Delta. Quite a detailed scenery town, I like it.
Shame there isn’t at least one jobsite at places like these. There’s a Tidbit right here, for example, but no jobsite. Perhaps it was planned, and had to be abandoned for time/budget reasons.
There sure is a lot to see in Delta.
Leaving town, destination Salina.
In Brno, Czech Republic, where I live, šalina (pronounced shalina) is local slang for ‘tram’. They’re called ‘tramvaj’ in other places.
So I can’t help calling the city we’re heading for ‘shalina’ too. Of course, it’s actually related to the salt found nearby.
It’s a nice drive from Delta to Shalina. Salina!
This is Scipio, a scenery town on the way.
Okay, Salina at last. We’ll visit it properly another time. Let’s make the delivery.
And we’re done for today.
Dan
Alrighty then, here with a second set from Ely in Nevada, this time to West Wendover in… Nevada. And then a trip from Elko, Nevada, to West Wendover…and a tiny bit of Utah. Just about all of it was actually added by the Utah DLC, but it just goes to show. Something.
Leaving Ely for the second time in this tour, this time before dawn so no one sees us.
Ely is pretty nice, gotta say.
Heading north through Nevada near the border.
Didn’t stop at the Palm Café, got two trips to make today, and a very physically demanding teleport to manage. I hate that electric tingling as it goes all through your body.
Looks darn hot, was darn hot. Would be great if heat and cold affected driver fatigue, made you put on the air-con or heating, which can also fail. Perhaps one day someone will release a game called ‘Truck Simulator’ where truck systems are simulated. You know, with buttons in the cab you can press that actually do things. Where wind can overturn you, ice can make you skid. Snow falls. Dirt appears on truck, so you need to wash it. Wouldn’t that be nice?
Somewhere before this Route 93 split into two. The right fork heads NE towards the far north of Utah, and we’re on that road now. This is where the less arid, less forbidding terrain begins.
A dried up river bed. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there were seasons, and we could see the desert bloom?
Things have got all spectacular again.
We’ve arrived at the Nevada town of West Wendover. There is also a Wendover, but that’s in Utah. Apparently people come over from Wendover to West Wendover to visit the casinos and buy weed. Prostitution may also be an option there, can’t remember.
According to Wikipedia, many citizens of Wendover actually wanted to leave Utah and create one town of Wendover in Nevada. Imagine that. The idea never came to fruition though. Evidently they are not all straight-laced religious types in Utah.
Actually, it’s probably the most straight-laced religious types who are doing most of the commuting. It often seems to work like that, it seems to me.
Dropped off the trailer here, and prepared for teleportation to Elko.
ZZZZZap! And now we are in Elko, ready to pick up one last delivery from Nevada to Utah.
Elko is in the far north of Nevada, where things are a little greener, near the border with southern Idaho.
Nice, a bulldozer.
Had to weigh it. Was really heavy. Yep.
Under us is the road to Jackpot, which lies right on the border.
Nice mountains in the distance.
Refreshing dose of green, here.
Nearing West Wendover. We’re not going to stop this time, but press on into Utah.
West Wendover.
And the Utah border, again. That pile of scrap on the left may be in Wendover, not really sure.
Wendover weigh station. The pale colours herald a move into a very interesting area of ‘salty’ scenery. We’ll check that out next time as we continue our journey to the outskirts of Salt Lake City.
Dan
Leaving Ely for the second time in this tour, this time before dawn so no one sees us.
Ely is pretty nice, gotta say.
Heading north through Nevada near the border.
Didn’t stop at the Palm Café, got two trips to make today, and a very physically demanding teleport to manage. I hate that electric tingling as it goes all through your body.
Looks darn hot, was darn hot. Would be great if heat and cold affected driver fatigue, made you put on the air-con or heating, which can also fail. Perhaps one day someone will release a game called ‘Truck Simulator’ where truck systems are simulated. You know, with buttons in the cab you can press that actually do things. Where wind can overturn you, ice can make you skid. Snow falls. Dirt appears on truck, so you need to wash it. Wouldn’t that be nice?
Somewhere before this Route 93 split into two. The right fork heads NE towards the far north of Utah, and we’re on that road now. This is where the less arid, less forbidding terrain begins.
A dried up river bed. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there were seasons, and we could see the desert bloom?
Things have got all spectacular again.
We’ve arrived at the Nevada town of West Wendover. There is also a Wendover, but that’s in Utah. Apparently people come over from Wendover to West Wendover to visit the casinos and buy weed. Prostitution may also be an option there, can’t remember.
According to Wikipedia, many citizens of Wendover actually wanted to leave Utah and create one town of Wendover in Nevada. Imagine that. The idea never came to fruition though. Evidently they are not all straight-laced religious types in Utah.
Actually, it’s probably the most straight-laced religious types who are doing most of the commuting. It often seems to work like that, it seems to me.
Dropped off the trailer here, and prepared for teleportation to Elko.
ZZZZZap! And now we are in Elko, ready to pick up one last delivery from Nevada to Utah.
Elko is in the far north of Nevada, where things are a little greener, near the border with southern Idaho.
Nice, a bulldozer.
Had to weigh it. Was really heavy. Yep.
Under us is the road to Jackpot, which lies right on the border.
Nice mountains in the distance.
Refreshing dose of green, here.
Nearing West Wendover. We’re not going to stop this time, but press on into Utah.
West Wendover.
And the Utah border, again. That pile of scrap on the left may be in Wendover, not really sure.
Wendover weigh station. The pale colours herald a move into a very interesting area of ‘salty’ scenery. We’ll check that out next time as we continue our journey to the outskirts of Salt Lake City.
Dan
This time we're hauling all the way to Salt Lake City past the most unique scenery Utah has to offer - the Bonneville Salt Flats.
This seems to be some kind of salt pond. It's not the Great Salt Lake, that's for sure, though you can see more of this from the road than you can of the lake SLC is named after.
The Bonneville Salt Flats, home of the Bonneville Speedway, where various land speed records were set, including the run by Blue Flame, which reached 1014 km/h. That was in 1970.
I don't think we're going to be breaking any speed records today.
Wondered what this was. Perhaps a monument to where Brigham Young went up on the mountain, and a Voice Spake Unto Him, and said "Polygamy. This is The Way".
Over there, on the right behind the trees, is the Great Salt Lake that Salt Lake City is named after. As a view it's a bit underwhelming, isn't it? I'll have to try and get closer another day. Perhaps there's a better view of it.
Brigham Young's Epiphany Monument turned out to be the top of this absolutely mammoth smokestack at Avalanche Steel, which quite by coincidence is where we're actually going with this 'dozer.
Gotta love a bit of industrial grandeur.
I feel like having pizza for lunch today.
Time to drop the 'dozer off. A genuine delivery, for once.
A couple of cool night shots.
And now we're in a completely new state - Idaho. I've only driven in that state once or twice, same as with Wyoming and Colorado, since it came out, so I'm excited to be here. This is Twin Falls, in the south of Idaho, obviously.
Picking up a double trailer in a patriotic paintjob.
Imagine, you take your honey to the mall to keep her sweet, but then you find out it's a STRIP mall, and then she's all like "Waldo, keep your eyes to yourself", and before you know it she's calling 555 - DIVORCE.
Dance, Cleopatra, dance! For Pedro.
Awesome view here, but we'll leave it for the Idaho tour, one day. The guy doesn't seem that into the whole couple-selfie-with-a-view thing.
Moving towards the border now.
Not today, tralala.
Stopped for a break by the giant yellow woodlouse.
This truck had broken down, so had to take avoiding action.
Close to the border now. Hope you enjoyed!
Krigl
This seems to be some kind of salt pond. It's not the Great Salt Lake, that's for sure, though you can see more of this from the road than you can of the lake SLC is named after.
The Bonneville Salt Flats, home of the Bonneville Speedway, where various land speed records were set, including the run by Blue Flame, which reached 1014 km/h. That was in 1970.
I don't think we're going to be breaking any speed records today.
Wondered what this was. Perhaps a monument to where Brigham Young went up on the mountain, and a Voice Spake Unto Him, and said "Polygamy. This is The Way".
Over there, on the right behind the trees, is the Great Salt Lake that Salt Lake City is named after. As a view it's a bit underwhelming, isn't it? I'll have to try and get closer another day. Perhaps there's a better view of it.
Brigham Young's Epiphany Monument turned out to be the top of this absolutely mammoth smokestack at Avalanche Steel, which quite by coincidence is where we're actually going with this 'dozer.
Gotta love a bit of industrial grandeur.
I feel like having pizza for lunch today.
Time to drop the 'dozer off. A genuine delivery, for once.
A couple of cool night shots.
And now we're in a completely new state - Idaho. I've only driven in that state once or twice, same as with Wyoming and Colorado, since it came out, so I'm excited to be here. This is Twin Falls, in the south of Idaho, obviously.
Picking up a double trailer in a patriotic paintjob.
Imagine, you take your honey to the mall to keep her sweet, but then you find out it's a STRIP mall, and then she's all like "Waldo, keep your eyes to yourself", and before you know it she's calling 555 - DIVORCE.
Dance, Cleopatra, dance! For Pedro.
Awesome view here, but we'll leave it for the Idaho tour, one day. The guy doesn't seem that into the whole couple-selfie-with-a-view thing.
Moving towards the border now.
Not today, tralala.
Stopped for a break by the giant yellow woodlouse.
This truck had broken down, so had to take avoiding action.
Close to the border now. Hope you enjoyed!
Krigl
Thanks for the support, Bernhard!
Today – we drive from the Idaho border to Tremonton and Logan in the far north of Utah.
The state isn’t all dust and rocks.
I actually waited to see what happened when the irrigation ‘bar’ reached the edge of the semicircle. Would it continue across the countryside? Vanish and restart on the right? Nope, it ‘rebounded’ and headed back in the opposite direction, as one would logically expect. Nice they put the effort in to program that.
We’ve arrived in Tremonton, which is a scenery town… with jobsites. At least one. But it’s not marked on the map. I guess it’s treated like a suburb of Logan. There is a large urban area with various towns and cities above Salt Lake City. Together with Ogden, these towns represent that area.
This ‘scenery town’ has something special – a racetrack for horses. I think it’s for ‘barrel racing’.
It’s also famous for pedigree mosquito breeding.
Don’t see one of these very often in a truck simulator. Hmm. Coming to think of it, horse racing games are not really much of a thing, are they. There are a few, apparently. Starters Orders, Phar Lap, Gallop Racer.
This is the place to go in Tremonton – Plaster and Sons. But we’re going all the way to Logan proper today.
Very nice stretch of countryside between Tremonton and Logan.
Okay, perhaps Tremonton isn’t much of a suburb of Logan. Wonder why it’s not marked on the map, then. Too close to Logan? Or has to have a garage to qualify?
Here’s Logan.
Time to drop the cargo off at Farmer’s Barn. We’ll tour Logan another time. Back to Idaho now.
This time we’re in Pocatello, again in South Idaho, again ready for a trip into Utah, again to Logan. A bunch of roads from out of state lead there.
Pocatello seems pretty nice.
Got to get going for Utah, though, and we’ll get that done next time.
Dan
Today – we drive from the Idaho border to Tremonton and Logan in the far north of Utah.
The state isn’t all dust and rocks.
I actually waited to see what happened when the irrigation ‘bar’ reached the edge of the semicircle. Would it continue across the countryside? Vanish and restart on the right? Nope, it ‘rebounded’ and headed back in the opposite direction, as one would logically expect. Nice they put the effort in to program that.
We’ve arrived in Tremonton, which is a scenery town… with jobsites. At least one. But it’s not marked on the map. I guess it’s treated like a suburb of Logan. There is a large urban area with various towns and cities above Salt Lake City. Together with Ogden, these towns represent that area.
This ‘scenery town’ has something special – a racetrack for horses. I think it’s for ‘barrel racing’.
It’s also famous for pedigree mosquito breeding.
Don’t see one of these very often in a truck simulator. Hmm. Coming to think of it, horse racing games are not really much of a thing, are they. There are a few, apparently. Starters Orders, Phar Lap, Gallop Racer.
This is the place to go in Tremonton – Plaster and Sons. But we’re going all the way to Logan proper today.
Very nice stretch of countryside between Tremonton and Logan.
Okay, perhaps Tremonton isn’t much of a suburb of Logan. Wonder why it’s not marked on the map, then. Too close to Logan? Or has to have a garage to qualify?
Here’s Logan.
Time to drop the cargo off at Farmer’s Barn. We’ll tour Logan another time. Back to Idaho now.
This time we’re in Pocatello, again in South Idaho, again ready for a trip into Utah, again to Logan. A bunch of roads from out of state lead there.
Pocatello seems pretty nice.
Got to get going for Utah, though, and we’ll get that done next time.
Dan
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