Signs Can Get You In Trouble!

My friend Cyndae and I seem to be good at getting into trouble.  Yes, the adventure continues as we returned from Cascabel, a little more alert since seeing the chimpanzee head-on-a-stick at the entrance to the last driveway we drove in to.

Along the way bouncing down the dirt road, we saw a church steeple.  Hmmm must be a town there!  Let's figure out how to get to it.  We spotted this sign on the roadside and turned in.  No we did NOT have a reservation, nor did we have phone service so we could get one.  In fact, we had had no service in the last three hours.

As we drove down the now narrower and rougher dirt road, we spotted a big open gate.  Lets go in HERE!  That's when I saw the sign.  GAMMONS GULCH!  I've seen pictures in the past from one of my Ghost Town websites, but very few of them.  What a FIND!!

I instantly spotted the huge game camera attached to the fence looking right at us.  We parked and walked around the big fence into "town".  What a fabulous place.  It was an entire old west town full of original buildings.  I spotted a pickup way down at the end and hailed the human standing here.  HELLO!!!

Is this not cool?  There's a hangman's noose on the scaffold at the very end.  Oh the pictures I could get here!!  We are CLOSED the man said.  Oh darn ... could we just get a couple of pictures?  I was already snapping away.

No sorry, we are closed.  Cyndae distracted him as I took this one.  He gave us a card with all the information and we dejectedly walked back to the Jeep.  No ghost town pictures for me.

Later I looked it up on the internet.  It seems the buildings were gathered up by Jay and Joanne Gammons and moved here as a movie set.  If you want to rent the entire town and shoot a movie, you can.  $$$$   If you are just Joe Public and want to visit, you canNOT.  It is not open to the public AT ALL.  Well actually, I guess you can rent the place for your big church function or your wedding.  Several films have been made here, none of which I recognize.  

So we drove OUT the gate, but Cyndae insisted we turn left and head off into the desert.  It turns out there is a donkey sanctuary just down the road, but yet another sign said reservations only.  We tried our phones again, to no avail.  We saw donkey evidence, but with nothing else in sight, we finally turned around.

Next trip I'll try to get reservations for both the birds and the donkeys.  On the way back in to Pomerene we spotted this beauty.  Gosh if I had this truck I would be fixing it up and putting it on the road.  The motorcycle, not so much.

Since Cyndae had not been here before, we took a short detour to Pantano on the way home.  You've seen this before when I almost got the Jeep stuck in the mud.  Every year neighbors bring artificial flowers to the graves here.  It appears however that someone comes back and places them all on this grave.  This lady's last resting place is visited by her family often.

There are many buried here, but most are unknown.   Sadly it's in some disrepair.  Maybe I'll spend a day fixing it up a little.

After an amazing lunch of chili rellenos at Magaly's in Benson, we arrived back home in one piece.  Cyndae was ecstatic.  Let's do that AGAIN!!!  

OKAY!!!