This is the Presbyterian Church that is right across the road from the Catholic Church. Both are still quite nice looking and taken well care of. Again from here you can see a building that was previously a bordello.
There are 2 very large churches in Virginia City. One is the Roman Catholic Church. For such a small place the churches are very impressive in size. Both are off the main road, but almost directly in sight of at least one of the old bordellos. I guess the miners would hit the bordello on a Saturday night, walk out and see the church and that would remind them to go the next morning....
The first full day in Reno we drove up the Virginia City. The weather was cold, but the sky was beautiful. There were very few people there when we arrived, probably because it was an off season Monday. Some of the shops were closed, but most were open. This is a view of the Roman Catholic Church from the north end of Main Street.
Along the drive, we saw this cool cloud. It was almost eerie looking and there were smaller versions of this same type in the distance.
Nope not really, it's a Cinder Cone from the dormant Volcanoes that cover the Mojave desert area. This was about 20 minutes prior to stopping at the rest area below.
We decided we needed to go see some family in the Reno area. So, on April 6th at 0'dark 30, we left home and started the drive north. Our first stop was for donuts and coffee, we needed all the sugar and caffeine we could get :-)
We drove up the 14 to the 395 headed north. We needed a facility break so we stopped at the rest stop in Ridgecrest. Time from home approx 2 hrs.
Fred: OK....{sigh}.... you can sleep by me.
Charlotte: Can I have a blanket?
Fred: Nope! They are mine, you go sleep in the corner of the sofa.
Charlotte: (shrugs) OK.
This was a cabbage that my daughter grew for a contest. As you can see it's rather large! She didn't win, but we had a good time watching this thing grow.
