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With quality customer care, we look forward to delivering an honest service at a fair price! The Provo River runs parallel to the road, and you can often see anglers standing in the water, waiting for the blue-ribbon trout to bite their flies.
In Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, the foot-tall Bridal Veil Falls unleashes curtains of water in the summer and freezes over in the winter, becoming a Spidey course for ice climbers.
About 16 miles up, Deer Creek State Park offers activities for every weather system, including stand-up paddling, zip-lining, ice fishing and camping - in case you want to prolong your return to that other world. The vintage gas station signs, pumps and automobiles were amassed by the storage company's owner, who scours the country for new acquisitions.
Among his finds: a Polly Gas pump frozen in time and price at 32 cents per gallon; a Bob's Big Boy statue with protruding belly; and a green Volkswagen bug that might cause you to punch the nearest shoulder. There is also a P Mustang fighter plane with a Flying Tiger shark mouth that pretend-growls at visitors and a white halftrack used during World War II.
The tour is self-guided, so unless you're a baby boomer, you might need to call your grandpa to fill in the blanks. However, the website does provide information on select objects, such as the Roman Column Wayne Model pump, which it describes as "the fanciest and most beautiful gas pump ever built by the Wayne Pump Company. The Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum, on the Brigham Young University campus, doesn't count homo undergradutis among its 3 million-strong collection of mammals, crustaceans, birds, insects, arachnids and plants.
However, it does display the equally fascinating liger, a hybrid cat named Shasta from the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City, as well as an 8-foot-tall Kodiak bear that greets guests with a tinny growl. The research institute, which opened in and completed a renovation in , is more than the final resting place for its subjects.
At least once a day, staff members hold a live critter show. During my visit, the handler trotted out a cockroach, a corn snake named Reggie and a frog called Lemon, who is not allowed to fraternize with his brother, Lime. The university is also home to the Museum of People and Cultures, the Museum of Paleontology and the Museum of Art, which is currently exhibiting Pulitzer Prize-winning photos from the Newseum and towering willow branch sculptures by Patrick Dougherty. The seven original buildings demonstrate the early inhabitants' will to survive, and sometimes in style.
In the Turner Cabin, porcelain tableware and figurines adorn the shelves and a framed picture of hair art yes, the stuff that sprouts from your head hangs by the front door.
The cotton coverlet in the Haws Cabin features a decorative chenille star pattern. To learn about their food prep, visitors can peek into the Corn Crib, where the ears were dried and then ground into cornmeal. The village also owns several wagons and handcarts that the poorest settlers pushed to their new life. In the summer, a working blacksmith practices his trade near the oxen lift used to shoe the beasts of burden.
Before exiting, take a peek inside the outhouse for a cheeky surprise. Homesickness has an upside: authentic Hawaiian and Polynesian food thousands of miles from its roots.
Missing the cuisine of the islands, they started serving plate lunches nearly 30 years ago. Their kids now run the show, but the classic meal has not changed much: two scoops of rice, a choice of macaroni salad or pineapple with li hing mui seasoning and one to four proteins - including kalbi ribs, katsu fried chicken, teriyaki barbecue chicken and kalua pig.
The restaurant rotates its specials and themes, such as Saturday's poke bowl. Beverages dive deeply into tropical flavors. Try the Otai, a Tongan smoothie with mango, coconut milk and ice, or an infused kava drink created by BYU students. Omai Crichton, the daughter often found behind the counter, also makes leis that she sells in an adjoining space. It's the statement piece that says, "Aloha, Provo. What do you get when you combine Czech and Texan culinary influences?
Nope, Hruska's Kolaches. The Eastern European breakfast food arrived in Provo on the wings of three Texan siblings attending the university. The dough is based on a recipe from their grandmother, and the fillings are as bold and assertive as a Texan oilman.
The sweet pastry resembles a Danish in appearance but not taste; the savory variety looks like a dinner roll with a bun in the oven. The teeny bakery with the pear-themed decor "hruska" means "pear" in Czech opens at a. By the noonish closing time, only the tags describing the 24 flavors and two specials remain. On a weekday morning, empty trays mocked patrons for not arriving earlier. We missed out on la bomba carnitas; chocolate, peanut butter and banana nut; bacon, egg, cheese and jalapeno; and raspberry nutella, to name a few.
A few maple pecan and mixed berry remained, but the kolache clock was ticking. Guidebook musts. The siblings have since sold the business, but Mason still holds the head-chef title. That formative experience turns up in such dishes as hog jowl tacos on blue corn tortillas and Navajo tacos with green chile pork or red chile beef. The green chile also shows up on the frites and in a stew. All of the sauces and breads are made on-site, including the nanniskadi, which kicks the burger bun to the corner.
The restaurant has a full bar with bottles of high- and low-alcohol beer, though who needs booze when cactus pear lemonade is in the house? With more than 1, games, you could easily end up eating three square meals, plus snacks, at Good Move Cafe.
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