DESTINATION ELY - III

We hit Alamo which is 100 miles north of Vegas and stopped at a park beside the Court House and had a bite to eat, fired up some numbers and had a couple of beers.

Alamo is close to Area 51 and the Extraterrestrial Highway. It's named after the Spanish word for poplar since those trees are everywhere there. It's a ranching town with over 5000 acres of wetlands and is a stop over on the Great Pacific Migratory Route for thousands of migratory birds and water fowl.

In the 1860's it was a haven for horse thieves from nearby Utah and Arizona. They'd rest up in the valley and then head out to Cali. It was reported that there was once over 350 different brands in the valley at one time.

After some quick refreshments we fucked off towards Caliente

Caliente is another Spanish word for hot. It's an old railroad town and was a major stop for the Union Pacific railroads.

Caliente is also famous for the Utah v Warren Jeffs court case (where under age girls were forced to marry older men at the Hot Springs motel which was owned and operated by members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) and the old railway station, which is now a railroad museum.

Calliente Station

We gassed up and then headed out for Pioche. Pioche is a little town that back in the 1860's was badder than Tombstone, Deadwood and Dodge City. 72 people died before someone died a natural death there. It was a gold town where the only law was a gun. The cemetery there has the very first "murderer's row" with over one hundred graves set apart from the rest. Nice little old town built into the side of the mountains, used to be over 9,000 people there back in the day but only around 900 now.

Rude cunt can't park his metric shit like a man.

The old Mountain View Hotel.