Orphan Girl

We've move to Butte, MT. We're at 2 Bar Lazy H Campground. It's a pretty nice park, on a hill. The sites are nice and big. Butte is an old mining town so there's a lot of history. It was one of the first city to get electricity in the nation. We're at 5500 feet so it's getting a little cold at night. Temps got down to 30 degrees last night. We really need to start heading south soon. 

 You can rent a Tee Pee for a night here at the park.

We took the guided tour of The World Museum of Mining. We went 100 feet down in the Orphan Girl mine.

Ready to go Down!

Down at 100 feet it was dark and cold. Our guide Tony, gave a demonstration of electric carts that are currently used in the mine. Before electricity, mules were used to tow the heavy carts. The mine goes down to 3000 feet below us but it's now full of water. They stopped pumping it out in 1989. There are 10,000 miles of tunnels under the city of Butte. And they also have one of the biggest open pit mines in the world, The Berkeley Pit, where copper and silver are mined.

 This was at the Museum. They moved all kinds of original, old buildings to the museum site.

 We had to walk down, but back in the 1800s the miners would ride in cages that held 8-10 miners at a time.

Safety sign in the mine.

Orphan Girl Crew in 1930.

They had a memorial wall with 2800 names of men lost in the mines over the years.

 This is a Fordson Snow Machine. In 1929, This Fordson Tractor was converted into a screw-propelled vehicle. I'm not sure how it made any turns.

The Uptown Butte has a ton of old, cool buildings.

We had lunch at one of the many unique bars in Butte, Muzz and Stan's Expressway Tavern. They're famous for the Wop Chop Sandwich that was featured on "Man versus Food". It's a deep fried pork chop sandwich. Peggy had one. I added Muzz and Stan's to our Favorite places list.

This is my crazy attempt to get more flow but not more pressure to our rolling home. Does it look good? I build it without getting burned or hurt.

BGE Picture of the Blog.

Two Men and an Egg.

Live Happy and Always Go Big.