As a very strongly-identified city person, this trip is blowing my mind every day. We drove for about 2 1/2 hours each way to get from Tonopah, NV to Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park, where they had both a ghost mining town AND the fossilized skeleton of an icthyosaur. We had podcasts on, but I was unable to focus on them at all because all I could do was stare at the mountains. Nevada is full of different mountain ranges. They each have different characters - some are full of trees, and some are desolate. Some are snow-covered, some are mostly brown dirt. Some are huge and have sharp peaks, some look more curved. Some have obviously been mined, with huge slices cut out of them. The roads run straight and lonely between them and twist through them. They are not all the same kind of lonely. Route 50 is called "The Loneliest Road in America" and it was on this road that we passed through my favorite non-ghost town so far, Eureka NV. However, the state routes leading to Berlin-Ichthyosaur were far lonielier. Except for one person coming from the semi-ghost town of Ione, we didn't see anyone else.
I don't know if any of my photos of the desolation or the mountains even come close to doing justice to what it feels like to be there.
Last night we visited the ghost town of Belmont by moonlight (as described by Kelly a few posts back). The moon was so huge and bright, we didn't even need our flashlights. No photo could capture the moon either.
The photos can, however, capture some of the structures we've seen so far. Here are some from Berlin and Candelaria.
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