LIVING IN DUGWAY

People that live in Salt Lake City or on the outskirts of SLC are always asking me what it is like living in Dugway. They have no clue. If you ever Google Earth Dugway, you will see that there is absolutely nothing for miles leading to the base. It doesn't show the new gated system they have now put up.

We have lived here going on thirteen years.Our children were just in elementary and middle school when we moved here.Now they have all graduated,got jobs, and moved out.
The day we moved to Dugway,we were busy all day long moving and cleaning into our new home. The children were ecstatic that they all had their own bedroom! Rushing around,planning on where they were going to put things.
Finally it became late when I told my hubby we should go eat. Now this has to be like out of some weird King Novel or something, because all day long we hardly saw any people. We went to the Community Club to get a hamburger. It was only 7:00 pm,it had to be open,right? Wrong! It closed at 5:00pm!"Why?"I wondered. Hmm. Maybe there was something TO this not seeing anyone all day. We found the bowling alley, which was just down the road (everything in Dugway is just down the road.)and there were no cars there. We got out and read the door, it was closed on Saturday's because the Community Club was open! I guess they didn't have enough people on Dugway to run both operations.

We went back to the Gas Station/Shoppette where they had a shriveled up weinie rolling around on one of those weinie cooker's,hoping the might have some type of something in there we could put in the oven. But it was past 7:00 now, and the Shoppette,of course, had closed! "There was probably some lone shriveled up weinie laying in the garbage!" I thought.

Finally I went across the street, where there were lights on, and introduced myself to the neighbor. I asked her if there were any other places on Dugway I have missed. She shook her head "no" and asked me in. She handed me a bunch of cinnamon rolls that were on her drainboard. She had just done dishes and cleaned everything up, and there is never leftovers, she apologized. I reassured her I wasn't there for food, just information. I thanked her for the cinnamon rolls and took them home to share with my 'troop'.

Getting used to Dugway was quite hard at first. But you got the hang of it you loved seeing all the wild animals, such as deer, antelope, hawks, eagles, owls, ravens,and squirrels. At night the sky reaches out and grabs your breath and takes it away by the heavenly sight of the stars. Each one seems as because as a diamond in a ring, and they glow! There is no pollution out here. It is like what people think all of Earth should look like. When it snows, the snow freezes to little pieces of the trees and sparkles a clean, white, crystal, undisturbed. When the power goes out here, you cannot see anything. Not even your hand in front of your face.

After you have been here a couple of monthes-a couple of years you hate Dugway. Too many restrictions,nothing to do, no malls and massive amounts of people, but if you make it past the first part, and you get out, meet people,get a job, you don't care that you live 70 minutes from the largest major city. Unless of course, you are a teenager or young adult. Then you need consolation of people your own age, with less military restrictions.