My hubby & I went on a day trip to check out Randsburg & Red Mountain this last Saturday. First stop was the family land.

The 3 original houses of prostitution in Red Mountain were bought by my Grandfather Willie Gillard back in the 60's. My dad inherited them and for a while my sister lived in one of them. I have fond memories of weekends scrounging with my siblings for Tortoise's, horney toads, artifacts & rocks. We would hike all the way around the Red Mountain and find all sorts of stuff. There was some sort of military fence on the back side of the mountain.

The "shacks" as we called them burned down but I still wanted to grab some wood, tiles and whatever was left  for whatever reason  I have yet to figure out. I almost stepped on a sidewinder that my Hubby thought was a rubber snake I had put there to trick him. It was beautiful and we thought it was dead so we went right up to it and took pictures. It vanished when we stepped away. CLOSE CALL.

Randsburg was the next stop. Olga-aged 96 who still runs The Joint was sitting at her stool and we talked a bit about Tom & Faith the two infamous past owners of the Silver Dollar in Red Mountain. All I can say about them is ex stripper and exhibitionist!

Hamburgers and excellent fries across the way at the White Horse and Ice cream at The General Store were on my list of to-do's. Antiquing and people watching are all good past times.

Check it out for a different kind of day trip and have a cold one at Olga's Joint!