A Visit to Chloride, AZ on Saturday, March 12th

Saturday, we headed over the 3400' Union Pass down into Golden Valley.  We stopped at a yard sale and a swap meet for some local flavor.  We enjoyed talking to the young couple from Oregon who were helping a grandparent down size the household. No special treasures found so we continued on to Chloride, a onetime silver mining camp where about 250 people still live. It is considered the oldest continuously  inhabited mining town in the state.  The town was celebrating St Patrick's Day with an antique car parade, green beer and folks dressed in period costume.

Can't resist photographing the blooming cactus.

Bone yard for old trucks in Golden Valley.

Looks like there were pony rides earlier in the day.

  Hope they don't have far to travel in this open trailer!

The town had a variety of art expression from car
 decorations to bucket trees.

Typical housing.

Yard work didn't involve mowing, just rock picking instead.

The bucket tree.

I met an Indian woman yesterday who uses old rusted cans to dye her basket weaving reeds. Chloride had an abundance of rusty.

A new collection idea: string together broken bottle
 necks and hang on bushes.

Limited yard work here, too.  In fact, rather
dangerous with all the prickly pear.

Chloride is above 4000' so there are Joshua trees growing.

Every yard and open space displayed numerous implements.

More yard art.

Entrants to the car parade.

Original Chloride Main Street.

Old Jag driving by.

Could it be Lucy and Desi's Long, Long trailer???!

Town restaurant signage.

Artistic rusty fence decorations.

I wondered if this was a mining operation but we were told
it was the Golden Valley dump.

Large indoor/outdoor swap meet.  We talked to a couple from
Nebraska who made walking sticks.  I now own a red cedar
hiking stick.  Looking for a bear bell to add.

I was trying to capture the gray pony in the yard.

View from the yard sale driveway.  So peaceful and quiet here.

Giant rock formations

Heading over Union Pass

Evening view of Laughlin, NV from our RV Park.

Earlier, I mentioned that Bullhead City's main street is 19 miles long as a result of 5 little towns incorporating together.  This mural is of Hardyville, one of those towns.