of Idaho. We fueled up here in Marsing and then headed south to the old mining town of Silver City.
Over 20 miles was dirt and rock and Larry hated it, he had his fill of dirt roads with his 
radio business, but hey, had to be done. The structures that are left in this old mining town are privately owned and used as summer residences. They have propane and solar panels, some use generators, there was one little gift store and the Hotel is still 
operating. It was neat to see what was left of the town pretty much unchanged, but as 
the buildings are all privately owned all you could do was walk around and look at the 
outsides of the buildings. The dirt streets are rough and primitive and I would hate to be the propane truck driver that had to drive out to and around this little old town! Hard enough to imagine it a bustling town in its heyday, harder still to imagine anyone wanting to live out there all summer long. It was odd with the old buildings looking like they did back in the 1800’s with modern 
vehicles parked alongside, Weber Grills and plastic chairs on the porches and many had hummingbird feeders hanging from the eaves…not the usual ghost town.After we hit the pavement again we headed south again and then swooped over to Mountain Home and then north to Boise on to Nampa. All this area is just high desert and reminded us of other places we have been in Arizona, Texas, Nevada and California. Really ugly and as we got closer to Mountain Home it was a lot of farmland, just not our cup of tea.
We drove through Nampa and had dinner at the Red Robin and we split a chocolate milk shake…yum. Then we hit the Super Walmart for groceries and stuff and headed home. After we got home I put away groceries and Larry washed the truck and the front of the trailer.
So most all of these pictures are to and from Silver City and the surrounding areas. This coyote stopped and watched us for awhile
and the handsome boy with the eyelashes was our picnic companion.
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