On Friday morning we leave Tonopah and continue south on Highway 95. Joshua trees dot the landscape. Twenty five miles later we come to the edge of the tumbledown, almost ghost town of Goldfield. As 95 doglegs east we begin to see signs of life. A curio shop, a convenience store/gas station, a closed restaurant, [...]
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US Highway 95—Part 3, Goldfield, NV
Posted in Nevada, Western Photography, Western Travel Writing, tagged Basin and Range, Goldfield NV, NV ghost town, Yucca Mountain on March 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
US Highway 95—Part 2, Tonopah, NV
Posted in Nevada, Western Photography, Western Travel Writing, tagged Basin and Range, Mitzpah Hotel, NV ghost town, Tonopah NV on March 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s trip ends at dusk, in Tonopah, elevation 6030 feet, the piles of snow along very steep Main Street melting into what promises to become black ice tonight. Tonopah’s original 1900 boom came as the result of silver strikes, some of the largest in Nevada history. For forty years, the “Queen of the Silver Camps” [...]
US Highway 95—Part 1, Walker Lake NV
Posted in Natural History, Nevada, Western Photography, Western Travel Writing, tagged Basin and Range, Walker Lake NV on March 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Getting from Albuquerque to the Curry County coast is always a straight shot: across Arizona on I-40, CA-58 at Barstow to Bakersfield, up the San Joaquin valley on I-5, around the Bay Area to Clear Lake, and from there up US 101 to Nesika. It’s a long 1400 mile four day trip. Coming back is [...]
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