Wednesday, August 22, 2012, Tonopah, NV

Wednesday, August 22, 2012, Tonopah, NV

It rained most of the night and started again about 8 AM. It was raining heavily most of the morning. We both did things on the internet. We decided to go to Belmont in spite of the rain. The rain stopped after we left Tonopah on US-6. A little east of Tonopah we turned NE on SR-376 and then north on SR-82 to Belmont. It had obviously rained a lot and there were a couple of places with water crossing the road. We saw two antelope crossing the road. They looked fat and healthy.

Belmont is a ghost town, at least a ghost of its former self. An interesting place. It was the first County Seat of Nye County and the Court house is still there along with the remains of some old mills and buildings. There is a bed and breakfast and a church that has services twice a month. After driving around and taking pictures we headed back to Tonopah.

We stopped to do five caches on the way back to Tonopah. I was going to do some caches near the RV Park but got distracted by the fact that two of the storage bay doors won't open. I tried the key and auto lock fob, no luck. More to add to the list. I drained the sewer tank and tried the city water supply and it all seemed to work fine. Tomorrow on the way to Reno I plan to leave the satellite on In Motion and see if anything breaks loose. We can come back to Tonopah anytime to do some of the caches here and along the ET Highway.

The old mill site

Two double bunk jail cells

Belmont B&B

The Chuch at Belmont

The first Nye County Courthouse

The It Ain't New York City cache at the turn off to Manhattan

A warning when turning onto SR-82

Prominent citizens of Belmont

For supper we had a salad with tuna fish. The best meal ever.
With no TV we spent some time on the computers with the Sirius Radio playing Old Radio Classic's.
Before dark tonight there was a lot of blue sky.
We will probably go to bed earlier tonight and get a start in the morning that will get us in Reno early in the afternoon.