Unfamiliar Utah
Britain's Mirror has one of the worst written travel articles recently on Utah. For one thing, it places the Beehive in "America's midwest."
Utah, it would seem, revolves around those "Robin Hoods of the West" Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid and Robert Redford:
Nobody in Utah will badmouth old Butch, who was seen as hitting only the rich institutions, while helping "ord'nary folk" whenever he could. As for the Sundance Kid, his name lives on at Sundance Resort, an environmentally-friendly bolthole set up by the film's star Robert Redford. . . . He doesn't dwell on it, but Redford's ex-wife was a Mormon from just down the road.According to the Mirror, everyone asks two questions about Utah:"Do they practise polygamy? And can you get a drink?" As for the answers — Gov. Jon Huntsman could have written them himself:
No one seems prickly or over-sensitive about [polygamy], with one beer advert even reading: "Polygamy Porter - Why have just one?" You can get a drink in hotels and restaurants, and even in the one where you couldn't - the exquisite Roof Restaurant in the Joseph Smith Centre in Salt Lake City - it was no big deal. The food, ambience and superb views of the city and mountains are sufficiently intoxicating.My favorite part was a Utah resort "where you can sleep in a tepee and live like a Navajo Indian." Navajos slept in tepees?
2 Comments:
The Mirror is one of England's sleaziest newspapers. Why should anyone in Utah be concerned about an article written in a paper equivalent to the News Of The World?
Idiots. Brits love to trash people.
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