Travel Update: Full Post to Follow On the way home from a great four days girl ghost town trip. I had to stop and recover from the drive before I make the final push home. I would take off roading any day over driving a Wrangler on a 2 lane highway with high winds and crazy gusts putting me on the downwind side of swerving semis. We saw so many ghost towns, mines wildlife and parts of ... VIEW POST
Recent Ghost Towns & Travel Updates
Dixie Valley: Tanks and Taquitos
Dixie Valley is a one-of-a-kind Nevada ghost town. Instead of being abandoned when miners moved on to the next strike, the valley became a ghost town when the US Navy acquired it as part of their training range. Many homesteads were demolished but a few structures remained, including a cyanide rocket shop, an abandoned school bus, and multiple ranches. Round out your day playing on tanks and "50 ... VIEW POST
Planning, Planning
It was a pretty crummy weekend and I was still worn out from our vacation. So what did I do? Planed a girl trip of course!😆 I plotted out what I want to see on the drive between Schurz and Tonopah. Not including mines, I ended up with 30 towns. I might need to narrow down my list a little. I'm trying to decide what I want to explore outside of Tonopah, I have 2 full days. I'm torn between ... VIEW POST
St. George & Snow Canyon
We spent our last day in St. George exploring town and Snow Canyon State Park. We drove past the LDS Temple and Brigham Young's winter house but both were closed due to construction and COVID. We drove to neighbor town, Santa Clara to see a miner's cabin moved from Silver Reef. My daughter and I spent our last afternoon hiking beautiful Snow Canyon State Park. The park seemes so ... VIEW POST
Old Irontown & Mountain Meadows, Utah
Thursday was my favorite day of vacation as the entire family decided to join me. Our day started at a somber location, Mountain Meadows. In 1857 an emigrant wagon from Arkansas was attacked multiple times in the meadows by Paiute's and Mormon Militia disguised as Paiutes. After five days of attacks and a siege, undisguised Militia came forward waving a white flag, promising to end hostilities ... VIEW POST
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