You must find it hard living there in No.Cal ... I visited a friend up near some mining town ... can’t remember the name ....
Mining towns are sprinkled all up and down the mountains where I live now. Some of the more famous ones are not too far from here as well. Even some with names you would have a laugh about if I told them to you that did not make it into the history books. As a matter of fact, not too far from where I live there are some cabins (shantys?) still standing from back in the gold rush days -but difficult to spot if you are merely one of the flyover crowd. *smile*
Just a beautiful area, and I thank every day that I am blessed to live in a place most people wish they could vacation to -and yes, we do get a lot of tourists every summer, lol.
Hard to get here, yes. Impossible to forget, of course.
And the area is memorable as well... *wink* *grin*