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Day two began in room 512 of the Mizpah Hotel in Tonopah, Nevada (that one, top/middle/fire escape). The hotel has been restored to it’s old time saloony mining town glory and was really quite sweet.

I’d like to say nice things about the town – picturesque as it was – but I got a speeding ticket as I pulled from the gas station (30 in a 25 sheesh) and…

… apparently they don’t like dogs …

so I hit the road.

I was pretty excited at the corner of Hwy 6 and The Extraterrestrial Hwy.

Especially when I heard some unknown burbling sound across the road and went to investigate… see that KEEP OUT sign? Guess what I found inside that fence….

That’s right. This abandoned warm spring pool… water gurgling from underground, through a pipe, and into a private bliss. Rules be damned.

Boots off in a flash. Pants to follow. Thrilled to have my waterproof iphone case. IN. I wish y’all could have been there.

And that there was more time to luxuriate but Zion at golden hour was the day’s end goal. So back on the road for some yucca, yucca, yucca all the way to the Park (if you know anything about Zion, you’ll understand why it deserves it’s own post).

day two, half one’s instagrams …

l to r, top to bottom:round two begins…, Tonopah yeehaw., 30 in a 25 $115 eff eff eff., back to the beauty!, The sign … said KEEP OUT. I did not listen., take me to your dorky roadside attraction. – note: the yuccas and mountains and skies along the extraterrestrial highway were far more worthy of having their photo taken than the silly aliens – Area 51 adjacent or not.