Mormon Island State park in Nebraska is a beautiful, well maintained public park on the North Platte River, close to I-80. We went from roaring river to roaring trucks. Stormy weather with baseball-sized hail and possible tornadoes forecast so we hit the road for Kansas City, Missouri or thereabouts.
We dry camped at the Medicine Bow River campground, which was “near” to I-80. It took about an hour to get from the interstate to the campground, about 15 miles! June 1st was opening day for the campground and we were the only occupants of the 13-site campground. Beautiful and quiet. Lots of wild flowers and some snow patches. The river was roaring. Molly loved it. 
We stayed at the Salt Lake City KOA for two nights 
which is conveniently located near the area’s light rail and a short ride to downtown SLC.
The Red Iguana restaurant was about 5 blocks away and since it has been reviewed by Guy Fieri it was packed and we had a long wait to get in. Tasty. We got mole negro sauce, which we used on left over chicken. We purchased chicken to cook at a full-fledged Mexican market in SLC.
On the Go with John and Jessie 