Now that I was staying right at the edge of Ely, I could bike ride to this cluster of homes built back in the early 1900’s for miners. It was a steep climb up the road from the flat where the town is and where I’m staying. The area is situated just below the railroad tracks and back then the train would stop and pick up the miners in the mornings. There is a rebuilt boarding platform there now I’ll show a picture of later in the article.
Somehow the homes survived all those years of just sitting empty or with just a few of them partially occupied. Much of the stuff inside them is period items used to showcase the ethnicity of the owners of the homes. Note that the diversity of the culture here in Ely has more to do with the act of mining then any feelings of altruism by the citizens. Although townspeople are proud of that ‘get along, get the job done’ type of togetherness here, there was a lot of friction between the groups.
The Renaissance Village attempts to show the diversity that was here in the area by showcasing homes segregated by the owners ethic origins but I’m more interested in the antiques so I won’t go into any detail about which house is whose or what ethnic group they belonged too.
Over there is Las Vegas… 
Here’s a shot of the housing across the river. Just a half mile from here is Michel Jordan’s Colorado River house boat. Nice looking floating house.
I’ve tried a couple of their brews in the past but they’re not very good. But the food is great.
And here’s the new weather station I installed. The picture doesn’t do it justice as IRL it’s brightly colored. I can see what the temp is outside from the wireless remote which is what I got it for.
And I’ve taken up making my own fries lately. Yum. 
