Garnet Ghost Town

Today we took the bikes off the jeep and took a drive out to Garnet Ghost Town, a very nice mining town maintained by BLM. They have done a very nice job of maintaining the buildings and the picnic area by the parking lot. This is a fee site, so we helped out by paying full price, not using our Senior discount, mainly we did not have correct change. Jill painted while Les shot photos with the large format camera.

The town was started around 1890, when price of sliver was down and gold was up. It was very active in turn Century, with couple of “boom” times, including the 1930’s from thousands to 150. The post office closed it doors around 1947. It is a wonderful Ghost town.

When we returned to camp, Diane and Riley had just pulled into the site next to ours. They left early from Heyburn State Park as it was raining there.

Another pharmacy issue: Last night, we got an email from CVS pharmacy telling Les that the prior authorization for a prescription finally was approved after 6 weeks and they had shipped it to our home address. Before leaving home, Les called CVS and told them NOT to ship until he called them to provide an address, as we would be traveling. Someone didn’t get the message. The medication has to be kept refrigerated. So our neighbor took it inside and put it in the refrigerator. He’ll be able to use it when we get home. He can get a refill in early September delivered to where ever we are.Read more