Darling Clementines

Driving to ghost towns is usually tricky business and sometimes enough to turn you into a ghost - the longest one was about an hour long drive up a winding road that had both of us white-knuckled.  It even had a sign that said something like "Steeply winding narrow mountainous gravel road" which I thought sounded like the name of a bluegrass band.  After Cody, Wyo we ended up heading to Philipsburg, MT to check out a bunch of ghost towns in that area.  We ended up seeing about 5 ghost towns, but also Philipsburg had one of the most magical candy stores/factories I had ever seen.  They had 1,217 kinds of candy!  So amazing.  They gave out the most evilly delicious samples as well.  I could not believe how complete the ghost towns were.  I mean, there were still pieces of mining equipment and tools lying around.  One of the towns was Garnet, MT and it is one the National Register of Historic Places.  It's actually run by the Bureau of Land Management, and Doc and I were totally ignorant that they have their own park rangers.  Who knew?  They actually let you in all the buildings and even allow you to pick up all the artifacts, provided that you put them back when you're through.  I don't think I've ever been in a historic place that encourages me to touch stuff.  It was so great.  Who knew ghostly things could be so much fun?