Delta is a small town in Utah on U.S Highway 50, the last major settlement on that road before you get to Ely in Nevada, a mere 152 miles down the road. Not much is going on in Delta it seems, it has the Topaz Museum and the annual Snow Goose Festival, both said to be well worth a visit.

We had read nice things about the genuine American Rancher Motel and diner, and we made a small detour just to eat lunch there. There are not many small-town original diners left in the US, sadly they seem to have been replaced by fast food joints. For visiting tourists like us it is a charming and cool way to see what rural America used to be like.

The Rancher Motel and diner was a great stop, the menu was plentiful and the specials of the day were cheap and good. It was just like we imagined it should be like, friendly staff and puzzled locals wondering what the heck 4 Norwegians were doing at their little local diner.

The food we ordered was exactly what we needed, fat omelettes, fried bread, fried chicken, mash and gravy. It is not that often we feel like we are eating with the locals but at the Rancher Motel we felt welcomed and we felt we had a genuine experience of what locals do when they are being locals in a local diner on Main street America.