Alive in: Virginia City, Montana

Nevada City and Virginia City are a pair of authentic old west gold mining towns. Original buildings - patched here and there with new materials of course - but no false distressed facades. There was a pretty huge gold rush here. Mary and I were just watching through HBO's Deadwood before we left, so it's pretty timely for me.

Unfortunately I'm not sticking around, but just camping overnight here before I tackle the next pass tomorrow. I'm hoping to get up before dawn to catch the Perseid meteor shower. With any luck, I may hit Yellowstone tomorrow night.