Daisy Dukes Was Here

These shorts have seen some wild times, it looks like.

Somebody decided the base of Icara makes a decent altar. Business cards, bottle caps, a busted watch, and now apparently a well-worn pair of daisy dukes- all left behind like the statue’s some kind of confessional.

You’ve got nothing on you worth leaving. Not that you’d leave a business card out here anyway.

Might be worth checking on those ghosts Icara pointed you toward, or you could just get moving before the heat gets any worse.

Ghost Rider

The ghost has a bike, that much is certain. Where it suggests going is not as clear. The beach cruiser it’s holding onto is missing some pretty important parts and looks to be as permanently stuck here as the ghost statue itself.

You start to wonder if this scene is a little more lively after dark… but you’ve been here a few hours and the sun is still beating down relentlessly, so you consider the options: Head out of town now or stick around a bit longer and check out the old bank ruins.

Venus of Nevada

Welcome to Nevada!

Your vehicle, driven slowly and with the heater fully cranked, maintained its uphill composure pretty well.

Now that you’ve gotten out of the depths of Death Valley, it appears to be holding up just fine. In fact, the air itself is slightly less hot. It’s only 113F out here, yay!

The first thing you notice as you approach Rhyolite is some garish, 25-foot-tall pink sculpture off in the distance…  some sort of homage to pixel art, perhaps? Ah, this is the Goldwell Open Air Museum. You can stick around to check out the other artifacts here, or continue towards the town itself.

At least, what’s left of it…

Rhyolite Ruins

The town of Rhyolite looks, well… ruined.

But you’re here now, so might as well have a look around. 

You can take a closer look at the ruins of the three-story tall building just ahead or check out a lone train caboose that seems to still be standing on the other side of town.

Wait… is that a sign?