Salt Flats

Time for some updates...where should i start? The Bonneville Salt Flats and how i almost drove the miata into the water! Water? Yep, indeed, water...Bruno and i were driving from Elko to Salt Lake City when we saw the signs to the Bonneville Speedway...how could we not take the opportunity to go to a Speedway? :-) So, I took the exit. The exit lead us to a long straight road, parallel to highway 80 with nobody on the highway...interesting...no cars, no speed limit...Everything is so flat over there that it looks like there is water where the road meets the horizon...optical illusion, or so i thought! So I was driving at about 80 miles an hour, while Bruno was reading the lonely planet, when i suddenly wondered out loud where the road was heading. At the same time Bruno was reading about how the long stretch of road suddenly stops and becomes hard salt...but only in august and september...the rest of the year the salt flats are covered with water. Bruno barely had the time to look up at the road and yell: "STOP"...the miata breaked as hard as possible and stopped right in front of ....a huge water body...hmmm so much for the Bonneville Speedway. Anyway, we got the chance to make some nice pictures.