Kind's Retirement Travels: Gila Wilderness and NM Ghost Towns

On Monday we took a day trip to some ghost towns and the Gila National Forest/Wilderness. First stop was Winston where they had a cute little general store with a wide variety of items you might need. I thought the elk mount that still had velvet on its antlers was pretty cool. Chloride is a little ghost town that is near an existing zeolite mine. The zeolite has many uses and the mine here is the purest in the world. There was a former WI couple in Chloride who are restoring some of the old buildings in the town. The general store was cool- it had been closed up early in the 1900's with all of the merchandise still there, so it was a museum waiting to be discovered! We drove up into the Gila National Forest to look for elk. Saw some from a distance, as well as one antelope. We got up to the continental divide, at about 8000 feet. Found a cute house for sale in a valley, only $320K with five bedrooms (nice hunting camp!) I'm sure Kirk and Joe will come back here when Nancy and I are in WI next week. Weather has been nice- in the high 60's, low 70's.