In March of last year we went to Las Vegas with some friends to celebrate our friends 50th birthday. He wanted to go to a Nascar race so that was our gift to him. I am not a fan and this was the first race I had ever gone to and it really did not go well for me. That is a long story but I won't go into it today.
Fortunately this wasn't the only part of the trip. We drove into Arizona and did the touristy thing at the Grand Canyon. We stayed in a hotel on the edge of the canyon and it was amazing.
We drove off through the desert and came upon a little town called Chloride. It was very old and had so many special buildings. This was more my style. Many of the yards were full of folk art.
Chloride was founded in the early 1860's and the reason they settled there was to mine the silver as in silver chloride. They also mined gold, zinc, molybdenum, lead and vanadium.
This town is on the old Route 66 and of course we were singing the song. "Get your kicks on Route 66".
There are about 250 residents in Chloride and it is referred to as a living ghost town.
This was really a great little town full of quirky little places. I wasn't the one taking pictures or we would have had a completely different bunch of photos but I quite like the old buildings.
