Virginia City, NV 43.5 km

Here we are back in Virginia City for the second consecutive year. If you check last year's blog our visit was truncated by a flat tire thus we felt a bit cheated and decided to return to "finish the job".

The weather continues to be gorgeous - cloudless skies- as we wound our way up the mountain from Reno. I had to tear Norma away because she hit a jackpot last night! For once she was up over $600!

Virginia City is, of course, a historic mining town from the 1800s, with a lot of restored buildings, etc. A little more commercialized than our Ft. Steele, but the same idea so we got a lot of walking in today.


We spent a bit of time in the restored catholic church, complete with museum and the "mad monk's room".

The town itself is interesting to walk through with many shops, some of period design. The was the candy shop - these are barrels of some of the old favorites from our childhood - and the Christmas shop - take a ride on an antique Rudolph! The lady offered to take a picture of Doug on him but we knew Doug was a little too big).

 

As we were walking around we did see a sign indicating an ecologically sensitive area. Not sure what it was referring to, the old Dodge truck front or the trees behind!

Tonight we had a very good Mexican dinner at the same restaurant our hosts took us to last year and as a thank you we gave them a jar of huckleberry jam we had managed to bring safely from home.