Today (Wednesday the 28th) we decided to take a short drive north to some old mining areas of Idaho. Idaho has a lot of ghost towns. Some still have buildings – others just markers of what had been there.
We stopped at Stanley first so I could connect up to the internet and collect my e mail and send off a post about Stanley and the campground. We knew there was a 40% chance of rain today and the sky looked gray. We took a picnic lunch with us anyhow as we knew there would be little along the way to find in the way of food and we were right – nada – except snack food and very little of it. We did get our lunch while the weather was dry but it did rain for a short while as we were walking through Custer City Ghost Town (which is really a well kept walking tour museum).
On the drive up out of Stanley we were driving along side the Salmon River. Here is a pretty little waterfall that seems to appear from underneath a tree:
The mountains and sky on this dark morning:
Some of the photos are from Mike and some like this following one are from my phone – I forgot my camera behind at the camper this morning. This cemetery is from Bonanza City. There is not much left there besides the gravesites.
I thought the wire fence around this site was interesting:
This long flight of steps went to the Salmon river from the above rest area – Mike caught me from the back on the long trudge back up! Got my exercise in early today no wonder I am so sleepy tonight!
Pretty “Sego Lilies” that grown around here – I will check out the spelling of this later as I have no photos in the flower book for it. I’m pretty sure that is their name:
One of the few remaining buildings in Bonanza City:
The following photos of this old town are from Custer City – up the road from Bonanza City a short way. This is very much a walking tour through on old town. Lot’s of antiques.
This is the sign in front of the above building:
Old bottles lining the window:
Me – wandering into one of the little museum buildings – notice the roof?
Talk about recycling early in history – the roof shingles are made out of flatten tin cans! That is a lot of cans flattened – I wonder who had that job?
I got done with one more star block for the Star Crazy BOM – 4 down 3 more to go. I think I just might get done with the July assignment on the road – that will leave August and September to get done with after we get home so I can be caught up. I will press all the star blocks next chance I get and I will square them all up after we get home.
We are heading to Southwest Montana in the morning – destination to be decided in the morning. We are driving though Salmon but decided not to camp there. We will be stopping to get groceries though so I will most likely post this post from there.
(written on the evening of the 28th – Wednesday)
