tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73101378773226890162024-03-06T03:12:56.532+00:00Cheshire Cats Capersavoiding bears, mountain lions and Exmoor sheep!Cheshire Catshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07680293147303601292noreply@blogger.comBlogger556125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7310137877322689016.post-34222269968241993312018-03-18T15:37:00.000+00:002018-03-18T15:37:35.593+00:00Not making it to El Paso<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">At the beginning of
November we decided we’d better head off to Texas to get our annual safety
inspections carried out in El Paso, we never actually made it.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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I10 just west of Deming a loud sharp noise startled us, I honestly thought
someone had shot at us.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We pulled over onto
the hard shoulder and luckily for us a New Mexico State Trooper pulled in behind
us.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>One of the tyres on the fifth wheel
had exploded and that was the noise we’d heard.</span></div>
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escorted us of I10 to a safe place and made sure we’d be able to get help.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Thank you Mr New Mexico State Trooper, we
really appreciated your help that day.</span></div>
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to look at the tyre properly it was beyond repair and bits of shredded black
plastic were hanging beneath the large slide.</span></div>
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able to get to the spare put on, drive to the RV Park on the other side of
Deming and get set up before it got dark.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The next day the tyre company told us that they’d had no end of problems
with this particular make of tyre and had stopped selling them. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>After
hearing this we felt uneasy about the rest of them, so we even though the tyres were less
than 2½ years old and we’d driven less than 10,000 miles on them, if that, we
decided we’d feel safer if we replaced them all, so we did.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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Tucson and were lucky in that we were able to get all the repair work done and
completed before we came home at the end of November; we’d half expected that
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gorgeous sunsets we saw while we were staying in Tucson.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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our trips in 2017, despite having some unexpected and in some cases unwanted excitement, as
for 2018 who knows where we’ll get to.</span></div>
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Cheshire Catshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07680293147303601292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7310137877322689016.post-21128062048436972422018-03-18T15:28:00.000+00:002018-03-18T15:28:45.842+00:00Day of the Dead<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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on El Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) we encountered this family, who very kindly let me take their photograph, all ready to join in the parade later in the day. </span></div>
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café/bar; a small central pool is surrounded by shady trees and all around are
craft and artisan shops.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>One shop sells
gorgeous Navajo silver jewellery, not to mention some quirky socks.</span> </div>
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one of our favourite drives as we followed Harshaw Road deep into the mountains.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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starts out paved it turns into a mostly good dirt road further along.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We stopped for a while at the ruins of the
old Harshaw Townsite and Mexican cemetery before continuing further on into the
mountains.</span></div>
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tracks head off higher into the mountains leading to old mining towns and deserted
mines, the main road continues on through Washington Camp an old mining area
where miners still hope to hit the ‘motherlode’.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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onto the beautiful grasslands of the San Raphael Valley, we stopped by the
stone cross commemorating Father Fray Marcos de Niza, Vice-Commissary of the
Franciscan Order and delegate of the Viceroy in Mexico who was the first
European west of the Rockies when he entered Arizona on 12 April 1539.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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little further along in the centre of Lochiel we stopped underneath a huge
cottonwood tree.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Lochiel was once a
border crossing and my phone flashed up a ‘Welcome to Mexico’ message; needless
to say we were definitely still in the US!</span></div>
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Old Red School House, DB walked over to have a look, last time we drove this
way Lochiel had a sort of ‘lived in’ look and feel about it, but this time we
didn’t see anyone and there was a deserted feel about the place.</span></div>
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followed the road through more beautiful grasslands past San Rafael State Park,
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we stopped at the Velvet Elvis; yes it really is called the Velvet Elvis, for
dinner, I’m not sure how it’s get the name, although it might have something to
do with a large velvet painting of Elvis on the wall.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It’s a posh pizza restaurant, the margaritas
are great and the pizzas scrumptious, but absolutely huge, we both took ½ home
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and the flies behind, the next day we headed off to Tucson, Arizona taking a detour via Parker to have breakfast at the Early Bird Café. Although as we
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on to Tucson and of course the closer we got the hotter it became, I really
don’t know how people ever managed to live in the desert before air
conditioning.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Even though we picked up
the truck and fifth wheel reasonably early the next day, by the time we’d
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heading to New Mexico, but as DB was having knee problems, we decided to stay in
Tucson instead.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The weather was
gorgeous and usually temperatures are in the mid 80’s at that time of the year (October),
but they were having a heatwave and most days it was pushing 100F, quite a lot
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to San Xavier Del Bac Mission, known as ‘The White Dove of the Desert’ it’s a
beautiful place.<span style="margin: 0px;"> A</span>lthough the original
mission was built in 1692 by a Spanish Missionary, Father Eusebio Kino,
construction of the current church began in 1783 and was completed in 1797.</span></div>
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intact European structure in Arizona and the inside of the church is full of
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uncovering colourful paintwork hidden underneath years of muck and brown
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bread, it’s flat like a pancake and tastes a bit like a deep fried Yorkshire
pudding, delicious!<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>You can eat it with
lots of different things, but we usually eat ours with honey and cinnamon
sugar, scrumptious and I’m sure they’re absolutely totally fat and sugar free,
not! </span></div>
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left Panacea behind as we headed for Laughlin.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Highway 93 took us through wide open spaces and past the turning for the
ET highway that runs alongside so called ‘Area 51’, aliens, space ships and all
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up to the Little Alien Café in a tiny town called Rachel, but didn’t get there,
I forget why. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Looking at the map later,
I realized that quite a few roads we’d driven this year had taken us around the
edge of ‘Area 51’ and we never saw anything the slightest bit odd.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Although if we’d been out there on a dark
and lonely night, who knows!</span></div>
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stayed at the Golden Nugget, our room overlooked the Colorado River, which was
rather nice.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>After dropping our bags we
got a Starbucks and headed for the gazebo overlooking the river.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Although the view, as always, was lovely we
were inundated with flies, we’ve encountered flies by the river before, but
nothing like that it really was dreadful, needless to say we didn’t stay long.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It was very strange because as soon as you
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the river in the Colorado Belle and while the view was lovely, the outside of
the windows were covered in flies, our waitress told us it was the time of the
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out for Kershaw Ryan State Park by following Highway 93 to Caliente.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Roadworks on the main highway sent us on a
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we arrived at the park, which is in a very narrow canyon and has been flooded
out several times.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It’s a lovely spot
and as it was once part of a ranch as well as picnic tables, kids play area and
paddling pool there are lawns, flowers and some fruit trees, there is also a campground
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follow the ¼ mile trail to Horse Thief Spring thinking it would be easy, well
we got that wrong!<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The trail turned out
to be horribly gritty and slippery, even more so as we didn’t have our boots
with us, so when we reached the end we decided against walking down to the
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view of the park from a very handy seat, we decided to continue on the loop
trail as we thought it would be an easier trail down into the canyon, wrong
again!<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We were really glad to reach the
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Schoolhouse State Historic site we followed the signs and turned into
Pennsylvania Canyon, a rough dirt road that leads higher into the mountains,
signs warned that the road was washed out so we didn’t even think of following
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crossing the railroad tracks we discovered that the schoolhouse is only open
for tours and guess what, not that particular day.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Oh well, even though we couldn’t go in, we could
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was built in the 1920’s as the existing schoolhouses were too far away for kids
from the valley to attend.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In use until
1969, the schoolhouse was restored in 1998 and became a Nevada State Historic
Park in 2005.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It’s quite, remote and although
a really pretty area, I wouldn’t want to live out there.</span></div>
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to Panacea we stopped in Caliente to have a look at the old Union Pacific
Railroad Station, although freight trains still travel through Caliente I’m not
sure if it’s still a passenger stop.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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carried on to Panacea, were we stayed in a lovely B&B for a couple of
nights, in order to visit Cathedral Gorge State Park and a couple of other
places.</span></div>
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Earle Godbe from the nearby mining town of Bullionville was one of the first
visitors to appreciate the landscape.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>The eroded siltstone spires reminded her of European cathedrals so she
suggested the name of Cathedral Gulch which was later changed to Cathedral
Gorge.</span></div>
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people explored the area and the gorge was used as the backdrop for Biblical
Pageants and other open-air dramas becoming a State Park in 1935.</span></div>
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½ mile trail to Miller Point.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The trail
wound through a canyon along a dry wash and once we got between the canyon
walls it was very hot.</span></div>
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trail steps lead up to Miller Point Overlook, as we were going to drive around
there we decided against climbing the steps all the way.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Once at Miller Point we walked partway along
the canyon rim to take some photographs.</span></div>
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this time, as it was only mid-morning, we decided we’d carry on to Spring Valley
State Park.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The road took us through
the mountains, past the RV Park near the entrance and around a lake, where it
turned into a good gravel road.</span></div>
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told us that we were on the Mount Wilson Back Country Byway and although it was
usually a good road because of the recent snow he didn’t recommend us trying to
get over Mount Wilson.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He also told us
of a couple of places we should see.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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further on we came to the first; an old pioneer cemetery.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The cemetery was fenced, most of the graves
were untended, illegible and surrounded by sage and of the few names we could
make out for once none of them were Cornish or Irish.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It’s a very picturesque spot for your last
resting place.</span></div>
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followed the road and stopped opposite the stone cabin.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Directly across from us was George
Washington Rock.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>According to the
ranger many years ago on a 10ft x 10ft panel someone drew George Washington in
axle grease.</span></div>
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rock through binoculars and never did manage to find George Washington.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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suppose, as with everything, if you know where to look it’s really obvious, but
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out of the park we took Eagle Canyon Road and followed it to Rose Canyon Road.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The ranger had told us to look for an old
chicken coop.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It was a lovely drive,
but much further than we’d expected and we were beginning to think we’d missed
it, so at a T-junction we stopped to check the map and what do you know there
it was right in front of us.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The old chicken
coop marks the site of an old Stage Coach Station and on the rocks drivers wrote
their names and the date in axle grease.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>The oldest date we found was 1872.<span style="margin: 0px;">
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enjoyed both these sites, the more so as they were both unexpected, had it not been for
directions for the ranger it's unlikely we’d've found either, so thanks Mr Ranger. </span></span></div>
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continued our drive along Highway 50 turning south at Majors Place, (a bar I’d
mistaken for a coffee shop earlier in the year – oh well!) onto Highway 93 for Las
Vegas.</span></div>
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but the sun was out and we had great views of snow covered Mount Wheeler the
highest point in the Great Basin.</span></div>
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roads leading to the remains of old mining towns in the mountains before
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Founded in 1869 – 1870 Pioche quickly grew to a population of 1,000
along the way acquiring a reputation as one of the most isolated, unruly and
lawless communities in the West.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>As
with almost all mining towns it was a case of boom and bust, now Pioche is
mostly farming and ranching, although there are probably a few smaller mines
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">We stopped outside
the historic Old Lincoln County Courthouse which was open and full of
interesting exhibits, one of which was a world map showing the origin of miners
who’d arrived to work in the mines.<span style="margin: 0px;">
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list showing all the murders that’d taken place in the town from 1870 to 1879
the victims are buried in Pioche’s Boot Hill.</span></div>
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was filled with mannequins as though a trial was taking place.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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home to an Englishman named George Schofield who arrived in Pioche in the
1880’s and died there in 1915, his one and only known oil painting is now in
the Western Branch of the Smithsonian Museum who are interested in finding any
others that exist.</span></div>
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the old Courthouse is the old Mountain View Hotel, built in 1895.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>As well as visiting lawyers and judges many
famous people stayed at the hotel, including in 1930 President Herbert C Hoover,
the hotel was known for its good accommodation, food and wines.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The main reason for
our return to Ely was to drive the Success Loop over the mountains and see the golds
and reds of the autumn colours on the aspen trees.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Sadly when we got to the aspens they were
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clouds had come down and it had started to sleet so we drove down the mountain
and back into town. As we did we drove past the KOA where we stayed earlier in the year, it looked lovely in the snow, but we were really glad that this time we were in a nice warm hotel and didn't have to worry about freezing water hoses!</span></div>
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the historic Hotel Nevada and Gambling Hall.<span style="margin: 0px;">
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a good job we did as it was so cold our hands would’ve been shaking trying to
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after old movie stars and we were in the Jimmy Stewart Room, while some of the
movie stars stayed at the hotel I’m not sure if Jimmy Stewart ever did.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The walls were covered in old posters of his
movies and we had good views of the surrounding mountains.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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following day was supposed to be cold, bright and sunny, so we decided to try
the Success Loop again and see how it looked<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>I don’t know what happened to the sun but it turned out to be cold and
cloudy.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>When we got to the aspens,
which are at about 8,000 ft. it started snowing quite heavily, definitely time
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over to the Mexican Restaurant in the Prospector Hotel on the other side of
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morning the snow had stopped so after brushing off the jeep and checking out we
topped up the petrol tank and then stopped at the Toiyabe Café for
breakfast.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This time I remembered to
wear my jacket inside!</span></div>
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Austin it was overcast and cloudy and the mountains were covered in snow,
further along the sun emerged from behind the clouds and the scenery was very
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visit Hickison Petroglyphs, which we thought were by the side of the road, but
it turned out that to reach them you needed to take a dirt road into the
mountains and then follow a ½ mile trail.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Somehow with snow all around and ominous skies threatening more heading
off along an unknown dirt road didn’t seem like such a good idea, so sadly we
gave them a miss.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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drove through both clouds and sunshine and at one point we seemed to drive out
of the snow, but when we started climbing into Eureka we were back in the snow.</span></div>
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discovered in Eureka by miners from Austin in 1864; by 1878 Eureka’s population
was over 9,000 people.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>By 1900 the town
was declining due to changing market conditions and only smaller mines remained
operational until the 1920’s.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Mining
has recently made a come-back with a technique called heap leaching, a method
allowing more efficient and profitable processing of rock containing trace
amounts of gold.</span></div>
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tour of Eureka, but as we drove into town, it was grey, dismal, cold and
starting to snow, so once again we decided against it, and didn’t even bother
driving around as we’d done in Austin.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>We parked by the Eureka Opera House, a lovely old building I went inside
to get our passport stamped.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The lady
inside wasn’t going to let me go without having a look around so after leaving
a donation, off I went.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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it’s a lovely old building, as you walk down the stairs into the basement the
walls are signed by all the acts that’ve performed there over the years.</span></div>
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even vaguely heard of were the Inkspots and I think they were a Fifties group.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>From what we saw Main Street in Eureka
seemed to have more occupied buildings than Austin and they have at least one
grocery store!</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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snow became heavier, although the road was clear it was really coming down and in places the
snow was quite deep on each side of the road.<span style="margin: 0px;">
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visibility was so bad that the only reason we knew where we were was because I suddenly
saw a sign for Hamilton, the ghost town we explored earlier this year.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Needless to say we didn’t take a side trip
up the dirt road to see how it looked in the snow!</span></div>
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we drove down into Ely where, although the mountains were covered in snow, it
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the things we’d planned on seeing because it was so cold we were way too early
to check into our hotel.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We got our
passport stamped in the Chamber of Commerce, so now we had enough stamps to
send it off for our certificate, after that we found a coffee shop for some much
needed delicious hot chocolate.</span></div>
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the next day heading out along Highway 50 to Austin, Nevada, a semi ghost town,
it was cold, grey and overcast.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The
forecast said Austin was under a winter weather watch, I decided it was time to
put my jeans on, DB decided to stay in his shorts.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>A decision he’d later regret, big time!<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It started to rain and Highway 50 really did
seem like the ‘Loneliest Road’.</span></div>
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to stop and finish our coffee, the rain had stopped but it was bitterly cold.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The peaks of the Desatoya Mountains were dusted
with snow; through the sage, and because we now knew where to look, we could
just make out the rock walls of the Pony Express Station.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>On such a cold, grey day it really emphasized
what a desolate, lonely place it was.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I
was glad we were in a nice warm jeep with hot coffee!</span></div>
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Cold Springs Highway 50 follows the Pony Express route as it climbs up into the
New Pass Mountains.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Our next stop was
the Overland Stage Station at the start of New Pass.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Once again this station was surrounded by a
fence to keep vandals and souvenir hunters out.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>So sad that people seem to feel the need
deface or remove historical artefacts from such places.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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natural spring at New Pass there wasn’t enough water for horses and humans, so
a support ranch a mile to the west kept them supplied with water.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Originally part of the Butterfield Trail the
station was sold to Wells Fargo in 1866 before operations were suspended after
completion of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869.</span></div>
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Station and crossing the summit snow lay on each side of the road and the
mountains ahead of us were covered in snow.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>We began to wonder what we’d do if one of the many signs saying ‘snow
tyres or chains required beyond this point when lights flashing’ actually did
start to flash!<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Luckily they didn’t.</span></div>
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on the sky looked full of snow and when we arrived in Austin, they’d obviously
had quite a snow storm, melting snow was dripping everywhere and the surrounding
mountains were covered in snow.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Our
first stop was the Lander County Courthouse where I got our ‘Loneliest Road
Passport’ stamped.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Austin is a quirky
little town at about a 6,000ft elevation and came into existence on 2 May 1862
after William Talcott discovered silver.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>The town became the Lander County seat in 1863 and before the mines
started failing in the 1880’s Austin was a pretty big city with several
thousand people.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>These days there’s
probably not above 200 people, if that, living in the town.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Highway
50 is the main street through town, it’s also part of the old Lincoln Highway,
in fact Highway 50, as well as being 'The Loneliest Road', is the Old Lincoln Highway for a good way across Nevada.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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from some homes, a couple of cafés, motels, gas stations, gift shops and an RV
site there doesn’t appear to be much else in Austin.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Most of the other buildings seem to be
abandoned.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The nearest grocery store is
at least 70 miles in either direction.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">We had planned on taking
the walking tour around town, but it was way too cold, so we decided to drive instead.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Austin is home to the oldest Catholic Church
and oldest bank building in Nevada.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We also
stopped at the Old City Hall, Post Office, Methodist Church and found the no
longer operating Gridley Store, the oldest store in town. </span></div>
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out to the old Cemetery, on this particular day it seemed to be a very cold,
lonely place, there were quite a few Irish names on the gravestones.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">From the parking
area beside the cemetery we had a great view of Stokes Castle, built in 1897 by
Anson Phelps Stokes, a prominent mine developer, railroad magnate and
banker.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Apparently it was modelled on a
Roman tower he’d seen in Italy.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The
castle wasn’t occupied for long and over the years fell into disrepair; in 2003
it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Today the privately owned castle
is closed to the public, although you can drive the dirt road and look at it
from the outside, but as the road was washed out we could only admire it from afar.</span></div>
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despite being in a nice warm jeep, we, especially DB, were absolutely frozen,
so went to see if we could check into our Motel.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Cozy Mountain
Motel is just like the motel’s you see in the old movies, even though our room
was small it was spotlessly clean and had everything we needed including the
most comfortable bed we’ve ever had in a hotel and the most amazing heater.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I can tell you we really appreciated that
heater.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The owner is lovely
and once we’d check in she advised us to eat at the Toiyabe café but to get
there before 4.00 p.m. when it closed, as the only other restaurant in town
didn’t always open.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">When we got to the
Toiyabe Café, the waitress sent me out to the jeep to get my jacket as she said
it was so cold inside, it’s the first time that’s ever happened!<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She was right; it really was much colder
inside than out!<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Not even hot chocolate
warmed me up.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Apparently once the
heating is switched on it stays on all winter but because it was only the
middle of September and this was only a passing cold spell it hadn’t been
switched on.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We certainly wished it had
been!<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Once we’d eaten, we headed back
to our nice, warm, motel room.</span><b></b></div>
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for more snow and later in the evening when we looked outside it was snowing
like mad, in fact the next morning when we got up there was about 6” of snow on
top of the jeep.</span></div>
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to Cold Springs Pony Express Station, once again along Highway 50.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Although it was a bright, sunny day with
only the odd cloud lurking about there was a cool wind, so we both needed our
jackets to keep the wind out.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>There
were no actual trail markings, just a narrow path leading off into the sage.</span><b></b></div>
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trail as it went slowly uphill and although we looked through the binoculars we
couldn’t see anything apart from sage, sage and more sage.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>After about 45 minutes we still hadn’t found
the Pony Express Station and were beginning to wonder if we’d somehow wandered
off onto a cow path, we hadn’t.</span></div>
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later we came to a dirt road and the Pony Express Station was right in front of
us.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The dirt road was actually the Pony
Express Trail.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Crossing the trail
we went through a fence and over a small stream, which we assume was once the water
source for the station.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The views from the
site are amazing; in one direction the Desatoya Mountains create a stunning
backdrop soaring above the station; in the other, the view across the valley
towards the Clan Alpine Mountains is equally stunning.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>As we looked across the valley it appeared
to be totally empty, we couldn’t even see Highway 50 until we saw a car driving
along.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Built in about 1860
the station was quite large, 116ft. x 51ft. the walls were about 6ft. high and
3ft. thick.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It had four distinct rooms,
barn, storage area, corral and living quarters.</span></div>
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primarily so that the horses could be guarded but also so their body heat could
help heat the building, as the Station Masters only had one small fireplace to
keep the place warm through Nevada’s frigid winters.</span></div>
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station is remarkably well preserved, we could still see the remains of the
fireplace in the living quarters and the small gun ports in the walls.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In 1976 a team of archaeologists from the
University of Nevada excavated and removed all artifacts from the site.</span></div>
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visitors to the site while we were there, and when we signed the trail register
we discovered that we were the first visitors to the station since some
Canadians 4 days earlier.</span></div>
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dropped and it was really warm, so we found a couple of convenient rocks, and
sat for a while simply enjoying the sunshine, the views and the peace and
quiet.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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jeep we drove over to the old Overland Stage Station and the Transcontinental
Telegraph Station.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Sadly both are now
behind fences to protect them from vandals and souvenir hunters. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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looks in all the best cowboy films, travelling by stage was no fun as it was
either hot and dusty or absolutely freezing cold and passengers, whatever the
weather, were expected to get out and help push the stage coach steep slopes,
blistering heat, arctic winds deep snow or mud, it didn’t make any difference.</span></div>
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Fallon even though the sun was out, the sky started to cloud over and it became
decidedly chilly, but I was able to get some good photographs of the salt
flats.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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names in rock along the edge of the salt, in some places it looked very gloopy,
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left Chester heading for Fallon, Nevada.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>A lovely drive through the forest took us around Lake Almanor, another
huge lake, past more beautiful meadows before arriving in the town of
Susanville.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This time we headed south into
Nevada on Highway 395 where we joined I80 before exiting and taking Highway 50
East, ‘The Loneliest Road’ through Fernley to Fallon.</span></div>
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Nevada became known as ‘The Loneliest Road’ in 1986 after Life Magazine said
that you took your life into your hands by driving across it and that it was so
remote you needed to be a survival expert to travel it as it was ‘The Loneliest
Road’ in the USA.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Nevada promoted the
idea of travelling The ‘Loneliest Road’ and to encourage tourists the State produced
a ‘Loneliest Road Passport’, at each town along Highway 50, you get can get the
passport stamped.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Once you’ve had it
stamped at least 5 times you send it off and are sent a certificate signed by
the Governor of Nevada saying that you’ve survived a trip across ‘The Loneliest
Road’ along with a ‘Loneliest Road’ pin or keyring.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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in Fallon earlier in the year (2017, I am still catching up), we wanted to visit a couple of sites we didn’t have
time to visit then.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>One of which was
Berlin Ichthyosaur State Park, which is very long way from absolutely anywhere.</span></div>
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Highway 50 to Middlegate Station where we turned south on Highway 361.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Middlegate Station styles itself as the ‘The
Middle of Nowhere, Elevation 4,600 ft., Population 17’.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Middlegate was
named in 1850 by James Simson as he mapped a route for the Overland Stage
Company; he thought the cuts in the mountains looked like gates, hence
Westgate, Middlegate and Eastgate.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I
have no idea whether or not there is or ever was a Northgate and
Southgate.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In 1859 the Overland Stage
& Freight Station was built to serve gold and silver mines and in 1850 it
also served as a Pony Express Station.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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Telegraph line came through it continued to serve as a stage and freight
station until the mines closed.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>On this
particular day we used it as a coffee stop, but you can get a meal or a beer
and there are cabins and an RV park. </span></div>
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mines along Highway 361, and a few settlements, they’re really not big enough
to be called anything else, we reached Gabbs where we turned east onto Highway
844.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It was still a 22 mile drive to
the State Park, you really do have to want to come here, as apart from
fabulous views there’s absolutely nothing, and I mean nothing on this road
until you reach the Park.</span></div>
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and silver mining area, all that’s left today are the remains of the stamp mill
and a collection of old wooden buildings, a couple of which are obviously lived
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Berlin Townsite Trail, through the remains of and past the site of the Stagecoach
Shop, Billy Bell’s Saloon, the medical clinic and Dixon’s Boarding House to
name but a few and then followed the trail downhill a little way to the remains
of the cemetery.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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exploring Berlin we followed the dirt road up through Union Canyon, another
mining area, where there are even less remains.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The dirt road continues further on into the
mountains, but we took the road to the Fossil Building.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It was much narrower and we hoped we didn’t
meet anyone coming the opposite way, luckily we didn’t, probably because the
Fossil Building was closed.</span></div>
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able to peer through the windows and there were plenty of informational boards
to read, still it would’ve been nice to get a bit closer and see the actual
fossils.</span></div>
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about the existence of fossils here from the Civil War, but the site wasn’t
officially ‘discovered’ until a geological survey came through in 1928 and it
wasn’t until 1954 that excavations were carried out.</span></div>
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for fish lizards, were marine reptiles from the Triassic Period that could grow
up to 50ft long.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Scientists know very little
about Ichthyosaurs and although they were highly developed marine reptiles,
their origin and the reason for their extinction remains a mystery.</span></div>
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ichthyosaur might’ve looked like.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">This whole area was
once part of an ancient sea and the fossilized remains of about 30 of the
animals have been found so far.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I’m not
sure, but I think I read somewhere that the same fossils are also found on the
Jurassic Coast in Dorset.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It’s a really
interesting site.</span></div>
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the small town of Chester, so we once again took Highway 20 across the mountains
with a quick coffee stop in Willetts before continuing on our way.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Our drive took us past Clear Lake, a huge
lake with lots of homes and RV parks along the edges.</span></div>
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called Williams we joined I5 heading north, driving through orchards growing,
among other things, almonds, olives and nectarines.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>When we reached the town of Red Bluff we joined
Highway 36.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Highway 36 is the main road
to Susanville.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>When we were there a
section of the road was in the process of being re-aligned, in places we
travelled in convoy and in at least one place it felt like we were literally driving
over boulders.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We were so glad we
weren’t towing the fifth wheel!</span></div>
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accommodation we could find for our visit to Lassen National Park, which is absolutely
beautiful.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Our first stop was
an area called the Sulphur Works.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>At
one time there used to be a mill and bath house there.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Scalding, bubbling, mud pots are everywhere,
and signs tell you to stay on the road and trails as the ground is so thin you
could easily fall through and be scalded to death. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In places we could see the ground steaming!</span></div>
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decided to hike the Bumpass Hell Trail, the parking area for the trail head was
our first stop.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It’s at an altitude of
over 8,000 ft., and there was still snow in places.</span></div>
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long only about 3 miles but for some reason we thought it was a fairly flat
trail mostly along boardwalks, it isn’t!<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>I have no idea why we thought that, unless it was the mention of
boardwalks that made us think that.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Talking to other people we met along the trail it seemed to be a fairly common
misconception.</span></div>
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over a mountain, with more fabulous views.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>As we followed the steep trail down into Bumpass Hell</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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beautiful blue wildflowers growing among the trailside rocks.<span style="margin: 0px;"> I</span>’ve no idea what they were, but the side of
the mountain was covered in them.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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called because in 1864 Kendall Van Bumpass and his partner Major Pierson B
Reading discovered the boiling springs and filed a claim with the intention of
mining the minerals and developing it as a tourist attraction.</span></div>
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a puff of smoke when Bumpass stepped into a boiling mud pool heated to nearly
115c.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He survived, but lost his leg in
the accident.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I don’t suppose you’d get
many tourists wanting to get into a mud bath quite that hot!</span></div>
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of boiling mud pots and scalding lakes, the crust is so thin that leaving the
boardwalk is to risk your life.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>All the
Sulphur gives the air a definite ‘rotten egg’ smell.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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hottest fumaroles the temperature of the steam was measured at over 161c,
that’s hot!<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I’m not sure why but the
water in some of the pools is a beautiful turquoise blue colour and in others
it’s milky.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It’s quite weird to see the
ground all around you steaming in the sunshine.</span></div>
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circling the now full parking area looking for spaces, it was lucky we decided
to do the hike first.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We continued
following the park road and drove over the top of the mountains past more
trailheads and some beautiful lakes and water meadows, the views were fabulous.</span></div>
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we stopped at the store which was in the process of closing down for the
winter, but we were still able to get some coffee and snacks.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Even though it was only September we were
told snow could close the park at any time.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Afterwards we followed the road along the lake shore before heading
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stopped at a forest clearing that turned out to be part of the Nobles Emigrant
Trail, one of the many trails used during the California Gold Rush.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Even though this was an easy trail and
thousands of people used it, it wasn’t the most popular way to get to the
goldfields of California.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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highest point on Lassen NP road, on such a beautiful day it was hard to imagine
that it might soon be closed because of winter snows.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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took a taxi to pick up our hire car in downtown San Fran, traffic was really
busy, but the hire car company are obviously well used to visitors needing easy
directions to get out of town and told us to take the first right and then keep
turning left, or maybe it was the other way around?<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Well, whatever it was we were soon leaving
San Fran behind as we headed north across the Golden Gate Bridge and picked up
the Pacific Coast Highway.</span></div>
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Fort Bragg, unfortunately, for us the Pacific Coast Highway was shrouded in
mist and we hardly saw a thing, although I expect it’s a gorgeous drive in the
sunshine.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>There also seemed to
be a total lack of coffee shops along the way, although probably we just drove
straight past them in the mist!</span></div>
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Fort Bragg the sun came out and the mist cleared, we found the Beachcomber
Motel and checked-in, our balcony had lovely views across to the beach and out
across the Pacific Ocean.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span><b></b></div>
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booked a trip on the Skunk Train.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I’m
not sure I ever found out why it’s called the Skunk Train and if I did, I’ve
forgotten. We took Highway 20, a lovely mountain drive through lots of giant
redwoods to the small town of Willetts, California.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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from Willetts through the forest to Larkspur where there were some old growth
giant redwood trees.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The trees were
huge and we enjoyed the trip, but I have to say sequoias are still my favourite
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we enjoyed a walk along a beach front path to Sea Glass Beach; sadly we didn’t
get to see any sea glass as the tide was in, very bad timing on our part!</span></div>
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took the bus from Sausalito to the nearest stop to the Vista Point on the Sausalito
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perfect day, cloudless blue skies, sunny and warm, not a breeze or trace of
mist anywhere.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Walking across the
bridge was amazing and we had fantastic views.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>The bridge isn’t red as we thought, but is in fact a colour called
International Orange; apparently this colour was chosen because of its
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bridge we walked around, enjoying some fantastic views of the bridge, the bay
and Fort Point underneath before having coffee in The Round House.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In the visitor centre, (would you believe
the guy I spoke to was from Frome in Somerset?) I found out that it was a very
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interesting place, built in 1853 on the site of the first fortification,
Castillo de San Joaquin which was built in December 1794,<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>it was re-named Fort Winfield Scott in 1882;
I have no idea when it reverted to being called Fort Point.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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partial replica of Fort Sumter and is the only brick Fort west of the
Mississippi.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The sea wall around the Fort
has stood for over 100 years.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The Fort
reminded me of Fort Jefferson, 60 miles off the coast of Florida in the Dry
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hopped on the bus to visit the Japanese Tea Gardens, they are lovely, but it
was very crowded as we were there on a weekend, and as we walked around the
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across the bridge and around the Japanese Tea Gardens our feet were killing us
so we abandoned our plans to visit the Victorian Houses on Alamo Square, known
as ‘The Painted Ladies’.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Tour buses
used to be able to stop in Alamo Square, but after the residents complained
they are now banned, I can’t say I blame the residents to be honest.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">When we took the
ferry back to Sausalito fog was rolling around the bay, it was really quite
thick and when we got to the middle of the bay we could hear the fog horn
sounding across the water, very spooky.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Despite our inauspicious
welcome, we enjoyed our stay in Sausalito, and our daily ferry trips as we
explored San Fran.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">As we wanted to visit
‘the Crookedest Street’, we took the bus from Sausalito across the Golden Gate
Bridge into San Fran, and ended up walking much further than we’d
anticipated.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I don’t think the
photograph shows just how steep Lombard Street actually is.</span></div>
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and having got our breath back, we had the most fantastic views across the Bay
and San Fran.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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as they drove down the ‘Crookedest Street’ it’s so steep it was hard to take
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drive down the street although I can’t imagine trying to drive our truck round
those twists and turns.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Needless to say
there were lots of tourists about.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>By
this time we’d had enough walking so we took the cable car down, it stopped
conveniently close to a Starbucks, excellent!</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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the day of our trip to Alcatraz we took the early morning ferry from Sausalito,
the sun was rising over Angel Island and we had fantastic views of the bridge
and Alcatraz.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We probably had better
views of Alcatraz from the Sausalito ferry than we got from the Alcatraz ferry.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Our first stop was
Angel Island State Park, as it’s only accessible by boat there are no hotels on
the island only campsites; it’s a lovely place.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>A narrated tram tour around the island was
part of our trip.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The island has an
interesting history.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">At various times it has
been, among other things, an immigration station and a military Fort, on our
tram trip around the island we saw the remains of some gun emplacements.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>During both the Civil War and the Spanish
American War, Angel Island was considered a strategic location from which to
protect San Francisco.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In WWII Angel
Island was used as an internment camp for Japanese Americans.</span></div>
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had a short time to have a look around but not enough time to go very far.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We took our coffee to a quiet bench where we
could enjoy the warm sunshine and watch the sail boats.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Quite honestly I’d’ve been quite happy to
spend the whole day there.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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ferry we continued to Alcatraz, which was far from quiet as it was absolutely
heaving with people.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Even on a lovely
sunny day it’s a grim, forbidding place.<span style="margin: 0px;">
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we arrived the ranger gave us a short overview, after that you could either
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picked up our audio-tour guides and followed the self-guided tour around the
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through the cells we learned about some of the convicts, including Al Capone
(1934 – 1939) who were imprisoned there.<span style="margin: 0px;">
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to escape; all apart from 3 were caught and they were assumed to have drowned
in the frigid waters of the bay.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>As
their bodies were never found there are tales of them having survived and
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to some of the very worst criminals in the US so we were surprised to learn
that the wives and children of the prison guards felt perfectly safe living on
the island.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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interesting trip and I’m glad we went, but I’m not sure it’s somewhere I’d want
to revisit.</span></div>
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the mist as we crossed the bay one morning.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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tickets for the guided, narrated Hop-on Hop-off Bus Tour.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The bus starts from Union Square to get
there we walked through Chinatown.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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of the buildings are built in the Chinese style, street signs are written in
Chinese and almost everyone we passed was speaking Chinese, even the street
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someone was trying to entice you into this fabulous restaurant or this wonderful
shop that sold fantastic items or had fabulous food, all at amazing prices and,
naturally, the absolute best quality you’d get in China Town! </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">We loved the lanterns
strung across the street.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Once on the tour
bus we found a seat on the open top deck, our tour guide was excellent and gave
us a good overview of San Fran and just how much there is to see and do.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Among other places
the tour took us over the Golden Gate Bridge to the Vista Point on the
Sausalito side, that particular day the bridge was covered in freezing mist, suddenly
sitting on the open top deck didn’t seem like such a good idea!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">As the bus waited
at a stop in the Haight Ashbury District, where all the hippies hung out in the
‘Summer of Love’ in the 1960’s, a couple of aging hippies, complete with
sandals, long grey hair and tie dye clothes walked past and wished us all
‘Peace and Love Man’. And yes, that really did happen.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Some of the many multi
coloured houses we saw all around town, each house is probably worth in the
region of £5 million or more.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">One area was once so
dangerous that back in the Al Capone era the cops demanded and got an extra
$10.00 for working there.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It became
known as the Tenderloin District because that’s what the cops said they could
afford to buy with the extra cash, although they were also told they might not
live to enjoy it! <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I’m not exactly sure
a steak is worth dying for!</span></div>
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pointed out various interesting buildings as we drove around and as in all
American cities tucked in between the huge high rises there were some turn of
the century buildings with lovely architectural detail.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">We were surprised to
discover that San Fran has a real homeless problem our guide warned us that in some
areas of the city, especially at night, you could be hassled, quite
aggressively sometimes.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>A couple behind
us on the bus said that it had happened to them and was quite unnerving.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>San Fran is incredibly expensive and has even
overtaken Manhattan as being the most expensive place in the US.</span></div>
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summer at home, we once again did a fly drive at the start of our trip, this
time flying into San Francisco at the beginning of September.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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San Fran, we’d decided to stay across the bay in Sausalito picking up a
hire car when we left.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>To get to the
hotel we advance booked and paid for a shuttle service which had good reviews.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It was not good. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Partway to our hotel the driver stopped and
demanded more money. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>To cut a very long
story short, eventually, and without paying extra, we were taken to our hotel.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Needless to say the driver didn’t get a tip.</span></div>
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curiosity we checked the shuttle company website putting in the same details as
the original booking, the price was <u>exactly</u> the same amount we’d advance
paid.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Talk about how not to welcome
visitors to San Francisco!<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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the Hotel Sausalito was totally different and when we said what had happened,
even though it was absolutely nothing to do with them, our room was upgraded for
a couple of nights, how nice was that!</span></div>
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ferry each day we had fabulous views of the San Fran skyline, Alcatraz and the
Golden Gate Bridge and one day we saw porpoises swimming by the boat.</span></div>
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skyline from the ferry, I think the tall building is Tower of the America’s but
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across the bay we bought ‘clipper cards’ as we could also use them on trams,
cable cars and buses, they turned out to be invaluable and made life so much
easier.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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Starbucks close to the Ferry Building, very convenient and most days it was our
first stop when we arrived.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>From there
we walked along the waterfront to Pier 33 to get tickets to visit Alcatraz.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We
couldn’t get early morning tickets, so we booked tickets that included a trip
to Angel Island State Park, which was fine as it was on our ‘would like to
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continued to Fishermans Wharf and the sea lions at Pier 39.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The sea lions are a ‘must see’ in San Fran
and they’re fun to watch.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From Tonopah we headed back to Bishop for a couple of
days, we’d hoped that Tioga Pass, might be open but it was still closed due to
snow, but we did return to Lake Sabrina now snow and ice free where we enjoyed
coffee and hot apple cider.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I took away
a piece of chocolate brownie which was truly scrumptious!</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While we were there we met a chappie who was walking
the whole length of the Pacific Crest Trail, starting in Mexico in April.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>At the beginning of June he had made it to
the Sierra Nevada where his progress had slowed because of the deep snow.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Instead of 25 miles a day he was now doing
15, we thought that 15 miles a day in deep snow was a pretty good speed.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We asked if it was safe to be up in the high Sierra’s
on your own with all the snow he said it had been fine, but now the snow was
starting to thaw it was unsafe so he’d come off the trail for a few days to
stock up and was now going to meet up with some other hikers and they’d
continue through the Sierra snowfields together.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our last ghost town was called Gold Point.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We took the highway through Goldfield,
making sure we slowed down as the Sherriff in Goldfield is hot on speeders,
even the huge trucks slow down!<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>At Lida
Junction we turned onto highway 266 before turning onto highway 744 for Gold
Point.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gold Point was originally established in 1868 when it
was called Lime Point because of the lime deposits found in the area.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The name was changed to Hornsilver after high
grade hornsilver (I have no idea what the difference, if any, is between silver
and hornsilver) was discovered, changing back to Gold Point in the 1930’s when
more gold than silver was being mined.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 1942 as miners were drawn into essential war work for WWII major
mining efforts stopped, so who knows there might still be a fortune in them
there hills!</span></span></div>
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been added onto this mineshaft, so we wondered if it was operational again.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of the original saloons, they always look so much
bigger in the cowboy films!</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As with almost all ghost towns most of the property is
still privately owned.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We stopped
outside Mitchells Mercantile and took some photographs where we met the owner a
very nice lady who is a retired teacher from Las Vegas.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She opened the Mercantile for us to look
inside, but doesn’t allow photography inside.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We got talking about Goldfield and I mentioned the hotel and the ghosts,
she said there were ghosts in Gold Point and that sometimes she chatted to
them. I'm not sure whether or not I believe that, but years ago someone in Tombstone told me they did the same, so who knows.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our plan had been to head to Caliente but we decided
to return via Tonopah and Bishop.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Ely
to Tonopah is a lovely drive but has to be one of the loneliest roads we’ve
ever driven, it’s not far shy of 200 miles and once you leave Ely there is
absolutely nothing.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We saw one gas pump
that obviously belonged to a ranch, several ‘hamlet’ type places, a couple of
abandoned towns, dirt roads heading in all directions off into the desert and
that’s about it.</span></span></div>
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the way we were skirting the huge ‘secret’ military base called ‘Area 51’.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It was a good job it wasn’t night time as
otherwise who knows what we might've seen!</span></span></div>
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stop.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It’s quite a drive from Tonopah, or
at least it seemed like it, we first took Highway 6 back towards Ely, branching
off along highway 372 and then branching off along highway 82.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Lots of wide open spaces and very little
else, in fact I don’t think we saw another vehicle all the way there.</span></span></div>
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Indians first brought prospectors to the area, the name is from the French
Beaumont meaning ‘beautiful mountain’ probably because of the view of Mount
Jefferson from the town.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Quite a few people live in the town and, as almost always seems to happen we
saw a UPS, truck they seem to turn up in the most unlikely places.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Silver, copper, iron, antimony and sulphur
were all mined in Belmont and from 1865 to 1885 it’s estimated that ore to the
value of about $15,000,000 was produced.<span style="margin: 0px;">
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and the town built a beautiful Italianate Courthouse.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Belmont was also the home of Tom Logan, the
Sherriff who had an office in the courthouse and who died in mysterious
circumstances outside a brothel in the nearby town of Manhattan.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We bought a very interesting book about him
from Tonopah Mining Museum.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As the town fell into disrepair so did the courthouse
and one of the stories we heard was that the drug addict and serial killer Charles
Manson and his drug addicted followers squatted in the courthouse for a while
and, supposedly, Charles Manson wrote his name on one of the courthouse door
frames.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>There are two different stories
relating to their time in Belmont.</span></span></div>
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lady who ignored them and they ignored her.</span></span></div>
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shotgun and ran them out of town.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I
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on selected weekends, needless to say we were there on a weekday.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></div>
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remains of the Combination Stamp Mill, there are lots of loose bricks at the
top of the chimney; you really wouldn’t want to stand nearby in high winds!</span></span></div>
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the dirt road looked good, but as we kept running into snow this trip we took
the long way round on the paved roads.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Most of Manhattan appears to be operational and it’s almost all marked private,
so we just drove through, turned around and came back.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of our favourite trips was out to the ghost town
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">H<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">amilton was a silver boom
town established in 1865, it was also the first county seat of White Pine
County.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>At one time there were about
10,000 people living in the town and there was a magnificent brick
courthouse.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Sadly a couple of fires
burnt most of the town and it never recovered especially when the price of
silver dropped.</span></span></div>
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onto Green Spring road, a good dirt road. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We followed the road for about 11 miles as it
wound higher and higher into the White Pine mountain range the views were fabulous.</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></div>
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we saw a sign for the cemetery so we knew we were close by and yes there was
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are remains of brick, rock and wooden cabins and
buildings all over the place, not to mention lots of rusty tin cans, broken
glass and even bed springs!</span></span></div>
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sage we could see more remains and dips in the ground but sometimes there are
hidden uncapped mine shafts in there as well we didn’t event attempt to
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was what looked like an almost new warehouse type building.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Apparently back in the 70’s someone started
mining in Hamilton again, but it wasn’t worthwhile so they stopped.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>As we got closer we could see the place was
deserted and that the doors and windows were broken, not to mention full of bullet
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abandoned chimney where we had panoramic views over Hamilton and the
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again we found ourselves on the Old Lincoln Highway, the sign is on the right
in the brush, we’re reasonably comfortable travelling these roads in our 4WD
truck, but I’m not sure how much fun it would’ve been in a Model T Ford!</span></span></div>
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visited Hamilton, we only saw two other trucks and one ATV we hadn’t expected
it to be so quiet.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On our way back from driving the Success Loop we stopped in the small town of McGill
and visited the Drugstore and Soda Fountain which is a National Historic
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just closed the door and walked away leaving everything inside.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It’s a fascinating place and Dan, the
volunteer on duty that day was full of information about almost everything in
the store and the town.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Including that
atomic tests had taken place in Nevada and that if your parents had been
involved in the tests and you could find a prescription in the store then you
were eligible for some sort of government payout.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
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of Osceola in the Snake Mountain Range.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>The ruins weren’t accessible as quite a few of the mines are operational
again and they’re all marked private.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We could easily see the new workings of one old
mine.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>A conversation with a passing
trucker told us they were looking for Copper.</span></span></div>
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Osceola Cemetery we found the gravestone of Charles Henry Odgers, born in
Cornwall in January 1848 and died in Osceola in December 1903, that’s a long
way from home.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></div>
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is a lovely town with about 4,500 residents, it’s nice to visit but it’s a long
way from anywhere and I don’t think either of us would actually like to live
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nice RV Park, with fabulous views across the valley to the mountains.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Inside the office there’s a list of
distances to various locations and the last one says Walmart (back in Elko) 190
miles one way!</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We visited the Ward Charcoal Ovens in the Ward Mining
District, when the mines were operational over $1,000,000 worth of silver was
produced.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>There are six ovens; it took
6 acres of trees to fill one oven, so the trees were stripped from the mountains
in no time.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We
drove to Great Basin National Park and Baker Archaeological Site through wide
open country, we thought we’d been out in the middle of nowhere in other places,
but Great Basin NP really is in the middle of nowhere.</span> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The tiny town of Baker is so small it really
isn’t really even a village.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our plan
had been to drive up Mount Wheeler and take a short walk to a couple of alpine
lakes, but once again the road was still snowed in so that put paid to that,
although we did drive up as far as we could.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>I have to say when we got out of the truck it was absolutely freezing!</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Even though we hadn’t booked in advance we’d hoped to
be able to take a tour of Lehman Caves, but as we’d forgotten it was a holiday
weekend all the cave tours were booked.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>So, after a coffee in the Lehman Caves visitor centre cafe we drove
over to the Baker Archaeological Site.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sitting on the windswept plains at the base of the mountains, the site
was once home to the Fremont People and there <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>really is absolutely nothing for miles.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Back
in Ely we visited the White Pine County Museum; Northern Nevada is full of
amazing museums.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>One very interesting
exhibit is about a prehistoric short faced bear, the remains of which were
discovered nearby.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The bear stood about
12 - 14 ft high and had such incredibly strong teeth it crushed its victims to
death.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>However, it had one big
disadvantage it had very thin leg bones for its weight, so while running in a
straight line was no problem, if it swerved it could easily break a leg and
become the hunted instead of the hunter.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The skeleton of the short faced bear, you really wouldn’t want to argue
with that now would you?</span></span></div>
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day we drove high up into the Schell Creek Mountain Range along the 33 mile
Success Loop Drive.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The drive takes you
past numerous camp sites, through aspen groves and continues on until it
reaches highway 93.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Where an
informational sign told us that, once again we’d also been following the route
of the old Lincoln Highway.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Higher up the mountains I caught this deer as it
bounded into the aspens, but it was only afterwards I saw what someone had
carved into the bark of one of the trees on the left of the deer!<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></div>
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