Friday we went up to the mountains to a place called Tortilla Flat. If you have ever driven the Road to Hana in Hawaii, it's a lot like that...a long narrow winding stretch up the mountain with a few one lane bridges where you literally have to wait for oncoming traffic to pass before you can cross. If you know me, you know how I "love" the mountains! They are beautiful from the ground up, but I don't like driving up them. And like Hana, when you get to your destination, it's not much to look at.
This is a small mining town with a population of 6 people. But it does have 2 gift shops, a post office and a famous restaurant. The inside walls of the place are covered with dollar bills and other foreign currency (more pics of that later) and the restaurant is a kinda sassy tribute to the Southwest. Riley had "buzzard strips" and they are famous for their HOT chili among other things. None of us tried it, but we did stop and have some Prickly Pear ice cream at the gift shop after lunch. The waitress says the walls are estimated to be worth $90 million! And the bathrooms were worth the trip;) I tried to load pics of the men's room too, but blogger is being goofy. Cory took the pics for me because Josh wouldn't take pics in the men's room! i'll try again with those later.
The place is also a tribute to "an old scallywag" or something like that - A Dutch gold miner who is supposedly responsible for building the restaurant about 100 years ago along with killing anyone who came near him mine.
Despite my fear of mountain driving, this was a fun little stop! On our way back down the mountain we stopped at another mining town called Goldfield...did a little shopping, could have done some panning for gold, but it was close to Riley's bedtime so we didn't stay long.
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