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My grandmother was born in Silver City Nevada in 1894

I’ll never be there myself, but love to see it.

Really enjoying the videos.

Would be interesting to hear some stats on the towns you’re visiting. (Population, average temp., crime, main business, cost of homes). Well done!! You have the perfect voice and cadence (reminds me of the Waltons), just need a better camera.

Pyramid lake IS an ancient lake

Route 447 north of Nixon heading towards the Black Rock desert where burning Man is held has been of interest to me over the past several years as well. I am of the opinion that the organized looking " circles and scalloped regular structures". of tufa are influenced by blue green algae or other similar biological activity during formation. Think of the looks of the underwater "dark smokers" , geological Vents under the ocean that have regular formations from bioactivities. Lake Lahontin covered this entire area all the way to salt lake City up to approximately 13,000 years ago or so. Though not necessarily supported by the intellagence of somebody that knows what they're talking about, in my research on this area, the following speculation is added for your consideration: 😮 The Pliestocene was the prior age before the one we are in now, which ended approximately 11 ,000 to 12,000 years ago. Coincident with that era, was the rise of the Sierra Nevada. The Sierra Nevada is formed by a broken- off piece of the North American plate caused by the rapid subduction of the Farallon plate over the last million and a half years or so. The unusual forces that resulted in this huge uplift cracked off a "chunk" of the N.A. plate, resulting in a very steep eastern "face"of the imoutain range. Because the Pluestocene was so much wetter and so much colder than currently, the Eastern slope of the broken section of the internal portion exposed of the North American plate was subject to rapid erosion caused by glaciers and water flow . This resulted in many subterranean flows of water in a downward direction (of course,) which generated many of the springs which arose underneath Lake Lahontan, which gave rise to the tufa towers. It is interesting to note, and was a surprise to me to find out, that calcium carbonate is much more soluble in cold water than warm water. Therefore, the under ground springs which rose up from the floor of Lake Lahontan consisted of very cold water saturated with with calcium carbonate which had been collected by the grinding glaciers and water flow down the eastern slope mentioned above, which would surface under the water, in warmer water, and precipitate calcium carbonate in the form of the tuffa towers that's the subject of this thread. Most tufa 30:53 of significant volume was collected over periods of time measured in thousands, tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of years. Slowly. 😅 I did not know that this note was going to turn out to be as long as it is. My study of this situation a rose during a process which I have Pursued while attempting to derive a method to effect direct air capture of carbon dioxide, more of which information can be found at www earththrive.net. The accumulated alkaline materials located beneath the playas of Northern Nevada constitute enough material to entrap chemically all of the carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere , for geological periods of time. Being merely a safety engineer, I can garner no attention to the premise. Thank you for jogging my memory in regard to this matter. Those are definitely unique formations, and demonstrative of the fact that we live in a wonderful world indeed. We are all in this togerher...❤

I used to hunt Deer on McDonald Peak, east of Termo, in the early and mid 70’s…my buddies and I would stop in for a beer or two during our trip to gas the jeeps and trucks…I do remember that the general store had a beer-wine bar, and I believe it had gas pumps as well….inside the bar there was a collection of various live rifle and pistol shells on a shelf behind the bar, and there were maybe 1/2 dozen mounted deer heads…deer taken on McDonald Peak and the surrounding mountains…one of them was later measured, then entered in the Boone and Crockett Record Book as a trophy class mule deer

The original Train Depot. Was burned down several years ago.

Bonanza was filmed here.

I grew up in Gabbs. Small town living is something else. Gabbs kids were cut from a different cloth. Btw, you missed the other side of town.

Love Dayton. First capital of Nevada...

I wanna move there

My G.G.G. grandfather built the original Washington hotel (Hessel Buisman) his daughter & son in law G.G. grandparents took it over, then Great grandparents had it....haven't been there in about 20 years. Thanks for sharing

My favorite place in Reno.

Love the history and feel of these old west towns!

Have you ever been to Bodie? I love that ghost town but you have to be careful you don't drive over the mountain ledge driving up there. Makes me homesick seeing Daytin again. Thank you!🎉

My house was built in 1900…. You passed it 2 xs but didn’t give a shout out. 😊

That's my town, I 💜 it here, for a small lil town there is a lot of events for the whole town like the county fair, the high Sierra music festival, Holiday events etc. on top of all the mountain nature activities, the people are nicer, locals know each other & when we see each other in town (even people we don't know) we actually wave & talk to each other, the local mom n pop shops are friendly, there is very low crime here, I'm originally from the Bay area (about 20 years ago) but I will never go back to live there....this town/mountain & nature living will change ya....the main downside is the fires all around!!!! Other than that please come visit, we love visitors!!!! 😊💜🏞️🌲🦅🐻🐺🦊🦝🦨🐿️🦉🦅

Welcome to Silver Springs. Every need a tour I'b be happy to show you around.

It was a restaurant back in the 70 s the small garage was Bills Transmission and the small house was an old miner's

Old, but caught glimpse of newer finished walls inside.

Do you know the asking price on this piece of property?

Lots of good memories here..the last to live in the house were named Jim Nelson and his wife Nancy..poker nights once a week.😎👊🏻

There's a "Trash or Treasure" sign on the property, possibly the name of a thrift store? This might explain why they had so many of those hand bags. The restaurant/store was built in 1949 and the house was built in 1951.

I was a driver as well going up and down that road at least two or three times a week. Did you ever stop in Mina? and explored the old train depot they had there?

My guess, I've been there a number of times. Navy, before the Berlin wall came down. 1980s' up to about 1998. Aviation Weapons training

Of you keep going up 49 check out camptonville. Then keep going north through winding canyons. Pretty drive. Then you will run into good years bar. Then downieville. Nice drive

That brick makes it nice and solid!

Another wonderful video, thanks so much! I was going to drive here but don't need to. Hope you're well

Those Joshua trees are BEAUTIFUL, and priceless.

Hello nice looking around I found some info looks like this place might have been called Green wave sports bar at one time some people might call it a Roadhouse =Local bar and dance place unsure what year most likely in the last 20 years ?Unsure how long it was there 🇺🇸thank you for the explore

Thank you my friend. i enjoyed the video. Regards from Ody Slim

Is anybody here?

This is one of those times that we wish we had some dollars to invest into a place like this. We really enjoyed visiting Leetville Junction. We like those cinderblocks. It reminded me of my grandparents who had a small home made with them. Looked really nice. Thanks so much for the tour. Shelley and Max

That church with the swing set looked like it was maybe a schoolhouse, I could be wrong lol, but my family is from small town South Dakota so I’ve seen some of the old abandoned schoolhouses and that’s what it looked like to me! Awesome explore as always 😀

You find the coolest places! I mentioned on one of your other videos that my partner and I looking to move to Nevada, and you’ve really got me itching to get out there and check some of these places out! (And of course drag him along with me 😆) though I am deathly terrified of a certain creature with more than 7 legs but less than 9 😬😬

Funny that I stumbled upon this. I was the fire chief in Sierra City. I also saw the one you did in Chilcoot. I grew up in that town. My father was the fire chief there, not sure if you noticed the monument outside of the fire hall that was made for him. Good job, I'll continue to look for your simple odyssey's. Take care and be safe.

Very nice, glad you made to my town. The ice box in front of the Red Moose Cafe is still intact, this was before the bear damaged it so I kinda know what day you visited, it was while I was at work for 2.5 days. The Red Moose is a good place to eat. They also have rooms above they rent which are a good deal, and it's really nice upstairs. Steve & Jenny are my neighbors. It's not usually vacant like that, you hit it at an odd time. Usually there are people walking around. We moved there due to the gorgeous view and rivers, and it's high enough in elevation which helps my husband breathe better. There is a great view of the Buttes from downtown. Thanks so much for this video :)

I haven't been there in a long time. I need to go back.

Nice area looks like that was a logging town. But i heard there are a bout 100 Gold mines up in those hills and a 30 stamp mill at one time and that there are tours you can take of some mine operation when the building are open one could spend weeks exploring thank you for the walking tour p.s. and there is a cemetery that started in rhe 1850's up the hill from main road 🇺🇸🤔

Like maybe a greener version of Austin, NV?

What a great place to visit! Always love the map.😄 Oh, would we ever love to buy that place for sale. If only! And that park would be a cool place for a picnic. You mentioned using GPS. We can tell you from experience that it does not always play out the way it should. We put a destination in and it took 2 hours and we ended up in the very town we started in.😁 We sure enjoy these tours. Thanks so much. Have a good day our friend. Shelley and Max

Hi nice video

Aunt and Uncle lived here

Hello nice explore of this small town that car is a 1953 Dodge Meadowbrook wagon 2 door yes and 1953 was the only year produced. Where I live in 1970 there was a local guy that drove one just like this all the time remember it well he was going to retire and asked if I was interested in buying it ran great $100 ? Well let's turn the clock back now 🤫🏆looking forward to more travels thank you .p.s. that rust spot on the roof in the back is a strange place for rust of al places any way till next time .🇺🇸

Hello thank you for showing us around 🇺🇸🤔

Vinton where my uncle lives

Fyi that building used as museum was the high school my mom went to. My cousin lives across the street from it

Most of my family are from Loyalton. Wishing I could be there

Thanks Buddy. It looks like a nice road trip. Thank you.