See previous post.

…we left Silver Plume (where the depot for the scenic tourwas located) and headed to Georgetown to check it out. We parked and walked down historic main street and a few side streets.

The next image is a building that used to be a school. A man was inside working on it, but told us that we couldn’t go inside.

We never made it to the newer part of town, but the old part is very quaint. There’s a playground in the historic section that is amazing! Great park for a family to enjoy.

While my mom is in town, we wanted to get as much sightseeing done as possible, so we left and drove to Idaho Springs for lunch.

Our lunch, Du Rivuh,destination was a good choice. The food was excellent and the owner was a very nice man.

The owners hail from Arkansas and Tennessee:

After lunch we walked around town. I saw a waterfall and waterwheel that I wanted to photograph, but the pedestrian trail was closed due toconstruction:

What comes next? Dessert of course! Georgetown Valley Candy Company has two locations, one in Georgetown and one in Idaho Springs where we were. It’s all homemade ice cream. It was wonderful- and reasonable!

We wanted to drive around a bit to see what the houses looked like. We first went down a very narrow road that had a very steepdecline. My mom was very nervous. She later will name this road the Holy Shit Road as a joke because we will soon go down the Oh My God Road (what locals call it). Just before we got on the Oh My God Road, I got out of the car to photograph an eclectichouse.

I saw a young man and made small talk about how the residents get around on those hills during the bad Winter months. He off-handedly mentioned and pointed to a road saying, “Oh My God Road is an unmaintained road that gets pretty bad.” I asked him how bad it was to travel on at that time, and where it led. He mentioned that we could get to Central City from it. Another town to explore!

The next post will be a continuation of this one.