From Glacier to Ghost town

It was sad to leave Glacier this morning.  We all felt it, especially Jack.  I have a feeling that he will make good on his promise to come back here as a ranger one day.  We packed up and headed out by 10:30 for a day’s drive, and encouraged to realize that our friends, the Woods, who had also been in this area, were headed in the same direction.  We were able to catch up with them in little ghost town called Virginia City.

The Woods are friends of ours from home.  We have hiked and camped with them.  We have experienced girl and boy scouting with them, and we were excited to see them here in Montana for ice cream in a ghost town because they won’t be headed back to Massachusetts after their summer vacation, but back to their native England.  And they will surely be missed! 

Well, it turns out that Virginia City, is a perfectly intact gold-rush town.  The original businesses have been preserved as a kind of living museum of how life was lived here exactly 150 years ago this year.  Like most ghost towns, Virginia City didn’t last more than a few years, then was abandoned as the gold fever dwindled. 

We enjoyed strolling the streets, and peeking into perfectly preserved store fronts, hotels, banks, dress and shoe shops. 

Tonight we enjoyed our last campfire out on the road.  Tomorrow we head for Salt Lake City area where we will pack up and then drop the RV off on Friday morning first thing.  Then we will head to San Francisco for the last week of our adventure.  We will post our next blog from there!