Epic Recap -- Ghost Towns

We saw a lot of cool stuff on the back roads in Nevada. There were a number of abandoned mining towns from different eras. We didn't stop for the old west ghost town that looked real enough to be in the movies, yet Ian was intrigued and made a quick u-turn to stop at this modern day ghost town with dilapidated buildings. Wait, what's the the word  that's further down the stream of falling down than dilapidated?

"Whoa, we've got to stop. I'm pulling over!" One of the quick decisions Ian made that led to fantastic visual feasts.

Jet streams from the nearby air base were all over. We even thought we saw a suspicious grey smoke on a tangent from a strong jet stream but couldn't be sure it wasn't more than a trick on our eyes.

Snow-capped mountains in the background made the few buildings so much more epic. Zombie-pocalypse-ish.

It looked like a fire had claimed one of the main buildings, whatever it had been and then the people just left.

"Go sit in that chair." "umm." I said tentatively walking toward it yet uncertain, I mean what if some terrible disease is waiting in the foam? Answering my internal dialogue Ian says, "It's fine, it's been sitting in the middle of the desert, there's nothing wrong with it."

Something about this house with wallpaper still hanging was just so intriguing to me.

The whole time we were wandering around, I kept thinking about my college friend Sarah Gardiner. A penchant for abandoned buildings (like the state mental hospital in TC before it was turned into condos), and a phenomenal eye with a camera, she'd have come away from this site with an entire portfolio's worth of awesomeness.

If you can believe it, the recaps are still from Nevada. It was a festival of epic.