While visiting Bonneville, the pure white like snow landscape is breathtaking. However, that’s salt and not snow. If it were snow, it would melt and there wouldn’t be much to do afterwards. The salt on the other hand stays white and does not melt away.
If you don’t think about it and enter/exit your car it can get very messy before you know it.
Once it gets like that, it’s hard work to clean it up.
The car I rented from Salt Lake City had strict instructions to “Do not drive vehicle on salt”…
The salt that gets on the outside of the car can easily be cleaned but the interior won’t be.
The last time I came and rented a car, I took the car to a Car Wash and cleaned the Body, then spent some time cleaning out all the salt from the inside so they wouldn’t know. It was a real pain.
That’s when I came up with this technique of using a large plastic bag and putting your feet in it while still being able to drive. Having your legs and feet inside a plastic bag does make it tricky while driving but it keeps the salt from getting everywhere inside the car.
That was my “I’ve got an Idea!” for the trip.
First, you want to brush off as much salt as possible from your shoes.
Then you want a very large plastic bag (big garbage bag works) to put both feet in.
Be sure that the plastic bag doesn’t touch the ground outside so that no salt gets on it.
Then, with both feet inside, take your position to drive.
Be sure to pull up the bag and any slack as that will get in the way of driving normally.
And you are ready. Let’s go!
Notice the bag I’m using is black, which Japan doesn’t sell anymore but they are still well used in USA.
