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Virginia City Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Virginia City, United States
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West Virginia & the Sky Line Drive
This is a top pick! We left Provincetown Sunday morning, later than hoped due to a late night! We were headed for the Skyline Drive in Virginia. We are trying to follow the Appalachian trail as close as we can using a car. ...
City of Lake City and return home
... to revitalize. They are the county seat for the county - I am not sure which one. They just converted an old bank into the City Hall. It is really kind of cool. There is a chandelier in the lobby where people pay their utility bills. That is not ...
Antelope Island
Antelope Island, Salt Lake City UT It's a beautiful morning as we leave this unique island campground. What a mixed blessing this place is. Beautiful but largely unusable. We arrived yesterday in the heat of the day and retreated to the safety of ...
Lost in the Lost City
... take some finance and time before the rest of the city is showed in full glory to average, picture hungry American tourist. Lost City Camp After taking pictures we decided to go down to our camp. The Camp was a hat positioned on one of ...
The Civil War Battlefields
... boys were keen to get going early to as the end was now in sight. So out of Thornburg and on to Dale City. After stopping at the civil war battlefields a remarkable event occurred, Oliver Lombard emerged from the back of the car in his ...
Silver Cities
... time of year) and its tree lined streets hold numerous historic Victorian houses. After the morning constitutional I took a drive up to Virginia City a town that grew up to service the mining of the Comstock Silver Lode. It is high up in the ...
Rocky Mountain way
Arrived in Salt Lake City May 11th. There was a case involving a bigamist on the TV (not making this up), and the beer really did only go up to 3.2% alcohol by volume. All to plan so far. SO I could have 3 beers before we picked up our hire car. First ...
Surreal Life
... here on two very seperate visits by totally different people. And deservedly so. It's awesome AND they deliver. - Atlantic City it totally freaken weird. - The Taj Mahal is totally freaken weird. - The Barenaked Ladies do wonderful things for ...
Jim & June's Odyssey - 110420 Virginia City,NV
... Dog fights, fist fights and cock fights were popular. Nowadays, they hold the world famous Ferrari races through the Virginia City hills. Another touristy theme is everything named "Bonanza" - restauants, saloons, trinket shops, livery stable, ...
Lost City - Day 1
My heel is still not repaired, weeps a little but with the heelstrap of the sandles down it should be ok. Im all sprayed with DEET to deter the mossies and am ready to go. I get my hiking boot and I find my first cockroach! I didnt freak out, I just ...
Lost City - Day 4
... who went two days after us, slipped on the steps and twisted her knee!!! She was rescued by army helicopter from top of the Lost City and flown back to Santa Marta) Then its 9 river crossings back to our mid point. By river crossings I mean wading in to ...
Sionainn = Shannon in Gaelic
My friend Michael Waugh has started a tour business of Ireland called Wild West Irish Tours. I am so thrilled that I am going to get to see Michael and Trish's Ireland. As the pieces of my trip falls together I know I am on the path to an amazing ...
Lost City - Day 2
There are bugs on my face!!!!! Little criters can get through the net! Others complain of bed/hammock bugs too. I dont think Im bitten though. We have breakfast of grilled banana with grated cheese and some fresh made pitta thing with more cheese. A ...
Day 1
... ! Joanne, Derek and Emily get geared up for summer travels. Emily's friend Franky comes by to wish us a good trip. We left Redwood City around 10am taking the coast route from Half Moon Bay to Big Sur. since most of this coast is in our backyard, we ...
Growing Large
From Rick Steves latest blog: -Embracing Life with Abandon... Dear Traveler, I've been thinking lately about how so many people play it safe with their lives. They follow the conventions, avoid making mistakes or taking risks...and end up with precious ...
Moving Overseas Craziness
Written by Erica Uganda is less than 30 days away! Our blog is on "pause" while we prepare for our overseas move. When we are in Uganda there will be much more to share. In the meantime we have been . . . -donating stuff ...
I 95 here we come...
We woke up to a day with the sun shining and the temp being 40 degrees. Jeff decided this is perfect weather to wash the RV and car to rid it of the road spray/crap from our first 3 days of travel. Poor Ted got suckered into hooking up 100 ...
15 Days to Departure
Well I am 15 days away from departure and I am getting so excited to go. My airline tickets should arrive here at the house on Wed or Thurs. Also I will be getting my Euro-Rail pass on Friday. Things are getting closer. I can't ...
Settled (For a Few Months At Least)
... into the foreign service that we could look forward to settling down. We are staying at a place called Oakwoods in Crystal City. We really love it, but then again any place with closets and a bed would do. It doesn’t hurt ...
we met our first ahole!
Today we travelled through more of beautiful Montana, on our way to Virginia City which is a historic ghost town from the time of the gold rush in the late 1800s. First we actually passed through the town of Nevada city which is pretty much the same as ...
Off Track
What is the way? You don't choose a life. You live one. Life has a funny way of derailing the best laid plans. As I have been mapping out my future, both Europe and my continued education, I have had another amazing opportunity presented to me. It ...
Travel pod app
Just testing the waters of technology. I wanted to see how it feels to type a blog out on my iPhone keyboard. Will this be a pain or will this be liberating? To only need this small device to journal, blog, and utilize social media to record my memories ...
Plan in motion.
... August 22 and fly into Amsterdam on Thursday, August 23. From there I will head to Haarlam and stay at the Ambassador City Center Hotel - http://www.acc-hotel.nl/. The one thing I absolutely want to see is the Heineken brewery! On ...
Finding New Things
I have been enjoying being a tourist that actually gets to live in D.C. but I wanted to branch out to try new things. I will be here until March without paying employment so I decided to find out ways and places I could volunteer. I wanted to ...
Well Hello, Little Lady!
Today we visited cowboy country, home to the Ponderosa, gold, saloons and of course, cowboys. Virginia City was founded in the Comstock gold and silver rush in 1859. There are still working silver and gold mines around. The town itself ...
The Start
I found myself doing all number of constructive things, but my heart just hasn't been in it. I am sure everyone can relate to the feeing of going through the motions of a life thrust upon us by situation and environment, perhaps even successfully. ...
Virginia City
... super high winds and we were climbing up and down mountains. We made it there ok though and found a parking spot pretty easily. Virginia City is an old gold and silver mining town and the main street still looks like an old western town besides the fact ...
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